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GENEALOGICAL 

AND 

FAMILY    HISTORY 

OF 

SOUTHERN     NEW    YORK 

AND  THE 

HUDSON    RIVER   VALLEY 

A  Record  of  the  Achievements  of  Her  People  in  (he  Making  of  a 
Commonwealth  and  the  Building  of  a  Nation 


COMPILED  UNDER  THE  EDITORIAL  SUPERVISION  OF 

CUYLER    REYNOLDS 

Curator  of  The  Albany  Institute  and  Historical  and  Art  Society,   since  1898 ;    Director  of 

New  York  State  History  Exhibit  at  Jamestown  Exhibition,   1907;   Author  of 

"Albany  Chronicles,"    "Classified  Quotations,"   etc.,  etc. 


VOL.  II 


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ork)  Republican;  Mr.  Benjamin  M.  Brink,  of  Kingston,  New  York,  former  Editor  of 
he  Leader,  publisher  of  "Olde  Ulster" ;  Mr.  Alonzo  Bedell,  of  Haverstraw,  New 
ork;  Rev.  James  H.  Robinson,  D.D.,  of  Delhi,  New  York;  former  Senator  Clar- 
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and   on    Central    Xew    York;   "Genealogical   and   Family   History  of  New  Jersey,"  etc.,  etc. 


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As  previously  shown,  the 
VAN  NAME     name  of  Van  Name  is  an 

old  and  honored  one  on 
Itaten  Island,  and  derives  its  origin  from  the 
locality  whence  came  the  founder  of  the  family 
to  America.  The  church  records  of  Staten 
Island  contain  many  references  to  David  Van 
Name,  and  record  several  marriages,  but  none 
corresponding  to  that  given  in  the  family  rec- 
ords of  this  branch  of  the  family.  There  can 
be  no  question,  however,  that  it  belongs  to  the 
old  family  of  that  name. 

(I)  David  Van  Name,  born  1799,  on 
Staten  Island,  died  there  in  1879,  at  the  age 
of  eighty  years.  He  was  a  builder  and  con- 
tractor, and  operated  exclusively  on  the 
Island.  In  early  life  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  but  later  affiliated 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomination. 
Politically  he  is  described  by  his  descendants 
as  a  Whig,  and  it  is  presumable  that  he  acted 
with  the  Republican  party,  successor  of  the 
Whigs.  He  married  (first)  Catherine  John- 
son, and  (second)  Abigail  fane  Conklin. 
Children  of  first  marriage  were:  1.  Mary, 
wife  of  William  Cuddy,  who  had  a  son  Her- 
bert Burton.  2.  Cornelius,  married  Nettie 
Tuttle,  and  had  a  son  Myers  Ludington.  3. 
George  Edgar,  mentioned  below.  4.  John, 
died  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years.  Children 
of  second  marriage  were :  5.  William  Conk- 
lin.    6.     John  Frederick. 

(II)  George  Edgar,  second  son  of  David 
and  Catherine  (Johnson)  Van  Name,  was 
born  August  24,  1839,  on  Staten  Island.  He 
was  a  wholesale  and  retail  dealer  in  oysters 
for  many  years  at  Hartford.  Connecticut,  and 
is  now  living  there,  retired.  He  enlisted  in 
October.  1862,  as  a  member  of  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Seventy-sixth  Regiment  New  York 
Infantry,  under  Captain  William  B  Coe,  and 
took  part  in  several  engagements,  receiving 
his  discharge  in  February,  1864,  with  the  rank 
of  corporal.  He  is  now  a  member  of  Robert 
O.  Tyler  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 
of  Hartford,  and  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  that  city.  Politically  he  has  always 
sustained  the  Republican  party.  He  married 
(first)  September.  T862.  Antoinette  Bray. 
born  in  1844,  in  Brooklyn.  He  married  (sec- 
ond") Francs  McCune.  Issue  of  first  mar- 
riage: 1.  Frances,  born  1864:  married  Dr. 
F.   Taylor.     2.     Antoinette,   born    t866.   died 


in  infancy.  3.  Frank,  twin  of  Antoinette, 
born  1866,  died  in  infancy.  4.  George  Edgar 
Jr.,  born  July,  1868;  married  Emma  Hewitt. 
5.  Holley,  born  1871,  died  in  infancy.  6. 
Joseph  Mason,  mentioned  below.  Child  of 
second  marriage :  7.  Frank,  born  February, 
1NS4.  died  in  childhood. 

(Ill)  Joseph  Mason,  son  of  George  Edgar 
and  Antoinette  (Bray)  Van  Name,  was  born 
May  27,  1874,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He 
was  placed  in  a  private  school  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  at  the  age  of  six  years,  and  two 
years  later  entered  the  public  schools  of  Hart- 
ford, where  he  continued  until  fourteen  years 
old.  He  was  then  apprenticed  to  George  Den- 
nison,  of  Hartford,  a  builder,  and  continued 
five  vears,  after  which  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Herman  Mohl,  a  builder  and  contractor. 
He  later  formed  a  partnership  with  Peter  Zyk- 
kie  in  the  building  business,  which  continued 
two  years,  and  after  this  Mr.  Van  Name  be- 
gan dealing  in  coal  and  building  materials  in 
the  Citv  of  New  York,  and  later  organized  the 
firm  of  Van  Name  &  Company,  which  con- 
tinued the  business  five  years  After  selling  out 
his  interest,  he  was  appointed  superintendent 
of  construction  for  the  American  Tobacco 
Company.  This  position  he  resigned  to  become 
the  general  manager  of  the  Church  Construc- 
tion Company,  of  New  York  City,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  position  six  years.  Many  pri- 
vate and  public  buildings  in  and  around  New 
York  City  have  been  erected  by  this  firm,  as 
have  also  a  number  of  Carnegie  libraries  in 
various  portions  of  the  state  of  New  York. 
Under  the  recent  appropriation  of  twelve  mil- 
lion dollars  by  Congress  for  improvements  at 
West  Point,  the  firm  were  employed  in  the 
construction  of  new  buildings  at  the  Military 
Academy.  After  resigning,  he  again  organized 
the  firm  of  Van  Name  &  Company,  which 
engages  exclusively  in  building  construction, 
with  offices  at  No.  80  Wall  Street,  New  York 
City. 

Mr  Van  Name  and  family  still  retain  mem- 
bership in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of 
Hartford.  Connecticut,  and  he  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Society  of  Civil  Fnsrineers,  and 
the  Engineers  Club,  of  New  York.  Though 
he  has  given  little  time  to  politics  and  has  no 
desire  for  official  station,  he  sjives  consistent 
support  to  the  principles  and  policies  of  the 
Republican  party. 


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He  married,  June  6,  1894,  at  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed  church,  in  Brooklyn.  New  York,  Net- 
tie Amelia  Hansbrough,  Worn  January  22, 
1873,  in  Woodside,  Long  Island,  daughter  of 
Charles  Hansbrough.  The  last  named  was 
born  June  3,  1845,  'n  Manchester,  England. 
As  a  boy  he  came  to  America,  and  served  as 
a  soldier  in  the  latter  part  of  the  civil  war. 
Later  he  became  a  painter  and  decorator.  He 
married.  '  >ctober  21,  1871,  in  Red  Bank,  Xew 
Jersey,  Anne  Eliza  White,  born  October  6, 
[849,  in  Red  Bank,  daughter  of  Robert  White, 
a  native  of  Birmingham,  England,  and  Mary 
(Coles  1  White,  born  at  Wadesden,  in  Buck- 
inghamshire, England.  Mr  White  emigrated 
to  America  and  settled  in  Red  Bank,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  had  the  following  children: 
George,  died  October  8,  1851 :  Harriet  Jane, 
wife  (if  Jacob  Antonias,  of  Red  Rank;  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  married  (first)  George  McQueen, 
(second)  Thomas  Swannell ;  Mary  Hannah, 
married  (first)  Jefferson  Hillier.  (second) 
Oscar  Leith  ;  John  R.,  married  Catherine 
Way;  Anne  Eliza,  wife  of  Joseph  M.  Van 
Name;  William  Henry  and  Lucy  Ann,  twins, 
the  former  died  October  16,  and  the  latter, 
October  31,  1857;  Henrietta,  wife  of  William 
Conklin  Van  Name.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
M.  Van  Name  had  a  daughter,  Edna,  born 
May  17,  tK<)0.  died  in  infancy. 


A  branch  of  the  Goelet  family 
GOELET  being  Protestants,  to  avoid  per- 
secution, removed  from  Ro- 
chelle  in  France  in  the  year  1621  and  settled  in 
Amsterdam  where  they  remained  until  1676, 
and  Francis  Goelet,  the  youngest  son  of  the 
family,  having  lost  his  wife,  with  an  only  child, 
Jacobus  Goelet,  a  boy  about  ten  years  of  age, 
came  to  New  York.  He  left  his  son  in  the 
care  of  Mr.  Frederick  Phillipse,  a  merchant 
of  New  York,  and  sailed  for  Amsterdam  with 
the  intention  of  returning  with  his  effects,  but 
as  he  was  never  afterwards  heard  of,  it  was 
supposed  that  he  was  lost  at  sea,  after  which 
Jacobus  Goelet  married  Jannetie,  daughter  of 
Mr.  Coesaar,  likewise  a  Rochelle  refugee  fam- 
ily, and  had  six  children:  1.  Jacobus,  the 
eldest,  married  Miss  Buller  and  bad  children. 
2.  James,  who  died  at  about  twenty  years  of 
age.  3.  Jannetie,  who  married  Mr.  John 
Dies.  They  had  several  children.  This  family 
moved  from  New  York  and  settled  at  Kaats 


Kill.  4.  Francis,  was  a  surgeon  on  an  Eng- 
lish man-of-war  and  was  lost  in  the  river 
St.  Lawrence  in  the  expedition  against  Can- 
ada, under  Sir  Hovenden  Walker,  a.  d.  171  i. 
5.  John,  married  Jannetie  Cannon,  of  a 
Protestant  refugee  family  from  France  (from 
whom  Peter  Goelet  is  descended )  and  had 
several  children:  Raphael,  married  Miss 
Pelse  and  died  without  issue.  Phillip,  married 
Miss  Duller,  had  one  son  ami  two  daughters. 
The  son  died  in  St.  Eustatia  at  about  thirty 
years  of  age  and  was  not  married.  Jannetie, 
married  Alderman  Abraham  P.  Putt  and  bad 
no  children  The  other  daughter,  Catherine, 
married  Peter  Cartenius  atid  had  several 
children.  6.  EfTc,  married  Mr.  Burger  and 
hail  children. 

It  is  related,  that  about  1710,  Jacobus  Ooelet 
went  to  Amsterdam  and  was  directed  by  his 
father  had  built,  and  that  he  would  know  the 
and  informed  him  in  what  part  of  the  city 
they  had  lived  and  also  a  house  his  grand- 
father had  built,  and  that  he  would  know  the 
house  by  the  family  arms  being  cut  in  stone 
on  the  front  of  it,  and  to  inquire  for  the 
Spoorinburgh  family  into  which  cue  of  his 
father's  aunts  had  married.  He  found  the 
house,  it  being  a  very  large  building  and  being 
informed  where  the  Spoorinburgh  family  re- 
sided, he  called  upon  them  and  found  them 
far  advanced  in  life.  They  had  two  daugh- 
ters married,  and  were  a  wealthy  family, 
and  one  of  the  Goelets  was  captain  of  an 
Indiaman.  They  were  all  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  and  in  the  India  trade.  He 
found  that  the  familv  in  Amsterdam  had 
never  heard  of  the  familv  in  Xew  York 
since  the  latter  first  left  Holland,  suppos- 
ing them  to  be  lost  at  sea,  there  being  at 
that  time  but  one  American  vessel  in  Dutch 
trade  and  she  very  irregular  in  her  voyages, 
sometimes  making  one  in  each  year,  some- 
times one  in  two  years  and  sometimes  one 
voyage  in  three  years.  Jacobus  Goelet  died 
on  the  20th  of  August.  7731,  at  sixty-six  years 
of  age,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Dutch 
Church,  about  the  middle  of  the  left  aisle  in 
the  church  when  entered  from  the  street, 
called  Garden  Street. 

John  Goelet,  the  third  son  of  Jacobus  Goe- 
let by  Jannetie  Coesaar,  his  wife,  born  Feb- 
ruary 1,  t6q4,  married  Jannetie  Cannon, 
daughter  of  lohn  Cannon  by  Marv  Le  Grand, 


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his  wife,  descended  from  a  refugee  family  of 
Rochelle  in  France,  and  died  July  13,  1753, 
age  fifty-nine  years.  Had  thirteen  children, 
several  of  them  dying  quite  young. 

Peter  Goelet,  the  fifth  child,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 5,  1727,  died  October  11,  181 1,  age  eighty- 
four  years.  He  was  married  on  April  27, 
1755,  to  Elizabeth  Ratsey  and  had  children: 
Alice,  Jannetie,  John,  Peter  P.,  Elizabeth 
On  December  6,  1770,  Peter  Goelet  was  mar- 
ried to  Mary  Ludlow,  daughter  of  Henry  Lud- 
low Esq.,  of  New  York,  and  had  issue :  Mary, 
born  June  17,  1773,  died  January  31,  1774, 
age  eight  months.  On  October  26,  1775,  Peter 
Goelet  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Farmer,  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Farmer,  who, 
having  inherited  the  estate  of  Bentley  in 
Staten  Island,  assumed  the  name  of  Billop, 
the  old  proprietor.  They  had  issue,  five  chil- 
dren :  Sarah,  Thomas  Billop,  Mary,  Cather- 
ine, Christopher  Billop.  February  1,  1792, 
Peter  Goelet  was  married  to  Rachael  Farmer, 
the  daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas  and 
Sarah  Billop ;  had  no  issue. 

Peter  P.  Goelet,  the  son  of  Peter  Goelet  by 
Elizabeth  Ratsey,  was  born  on  August  18, 
1764,  and  was  christened  on  Friday  morning, 
August  24,  in  Trinity  Church  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Auchmuty.  In  the  Year  of  Our  Lord  1799, 
on  the  9th  day  of  May,  Peter  P.  Goelet  was 
married  to  Almy  Buchanan,  the  daughter  of 
Thomas  Buchanan  by  Almy  Townsend,  his 
wife,  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Buchanan  in 
Wall  Street.  They  had  issue:  1.  Peter, 
born  June  22,  1800,  died  November  21,  1879. 
2.  Jean  Buchanan,  born  February  7,  1802.  3. 
Francis,  born  March  2,  1804,  died  July,  1804, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Goelet  family  vault  in 
Trinity  churchyard.  4.  Hannah  Green, 
born  January  19,  1806,  at  the  house  of  Peter 
Goelet  in  Water  Street,  was  married,  June  30, 
1830,  to  Thomas  R.  Gerry,  son  of  Elbridge 
Gerry  and  Ann  Gerry.  5.  Francis  (2),  born 
January  12,  1808,  died  January  16,  1809, 
buried  in  Trinity  churchyard.  6.  Robert, 
born  September  19,  1809.  Married  Sarah 
Ogden,  the  daughter  of  the  late  Jonathan 
Ogden,  October  16,  1839.  Married  by  the 
Rev.  Berrian,  rector  of  Trinity  Church  ;  died 
September  22,  1879.  Buried  in  the  Marble 
cemetery.  New  York  City,  Second  Avenue. 
They  had  issue :  Robert,  born  September  29. 
1841.      Helen,    born    March    8,     1843,    died 


March  15,  1844.     Ogden,  born  June  11,  1846. 

Robert  Goelet  was  married  to  Harriette 
Louise  Warren,  (the  daughter  of  George 
Henry  Warren  and  Mary  Phoenix),  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Tucker,  at  No.  520  Fifth  Avenue, 
the  17th  day  of  April,  1879.  Died  April  27, 
1889,  at  Naples,  Italy,  on  his  steam  yacht 
"Nahma."  Buried  in  the  Goelet  family  vault 
at  Woodlawn.  They  had  issue:  1.  Robert 
Walton,  born  March  19,  1880,  at  279  Madison 
Avenue.  2.  Beatrice,  born  December  11, 
1885,  died  February  11,  1902,  and  interred  in 
the  Goelet  vault  in  Woodlawn  cemetery. 

Ogden  Goelet  was  married  to  Mary  R.  Wil- 
son, the  daughter  of  Richard  Thornton  Wil- 
son. He  died  August  27,  1897,  on  board  his 
steam  yacht  "Mayflower"  at  Cowes,  England, 
and  was  interred  in  the  Goelet  family  vault 
in  Woodlawn  cemetery.  They  had  issue:  1. 
Mary  Wilson,  born  October  6,  1878.  Married, 
November  10,  1903,  to  Henry  John  Innes- 
Kerr,  eighth  Duke  of  Roxburghe.  2.  Robert 
Goelet,  born  January  9,  1880.  Married  to 
Elsie  Whelen.  daughter  of  Henry  W'helen  Jr., 
on  June  14,  1904,  at  Wayne,  Pennsylvania. 
They  had  issue :  Ogden,  born  January  17, 
1907,  and  Peter,  born  June  8,  191 1. 


It  is  now  a  pretty  well  estab- 
BEEKMAN     lished   fact  that  the  families 

in  New  Jersey  bearing  the 
name  of  Beekman  are  descended  from  two 
distinct  sources,  one  of  which  is  Willem 
Beeckman  (Beekman),  of  New  York,  who 
emigrated  to  New  Amsterdam  in  1647,  and 
the  other  Maarten  Beeckman,  of  Albany,  who 
is  the  progenitor  of  the  branch  of  the  family 
at  present  under  consideration. 

(I)  Maarten  Beeckman  emigrated  to  New 
Netherland  in  1638,  and  settled  in  Albany, 
where  he  plied  his  trade  of  blacksmith,  and 
died  before  June  21,  1677.  He  married  Su- 
sanna Jans,  and  had  at  least  three  children: 
Johannes ;  Hendrick,  referred  to  below ; 
Metie. 

(II)  Hendrick,  son  of  Maarten  and  Su- 
sanna (Jans)  Beeckman,  lived  for  a  number 
of  years  at  Schodack,  near  Albany,  and 
November  13,  1710,  purchased  from  Octavo 
Coenraats,  merchant  of  New  York,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  land  on  the  Raritan 
river  in  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey,  it 
being  a  part  of  the  tract  bought  by  Coenraats 


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from  Peter  Sonmans,  who  in  turn  had  pur- 
chased it  from  the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey. 
The  deed  for  this  land  has  never  been  re- 
corded, and  is  now  in  possession  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Beekman)  Vredenburgh,  who  still 
owns  a  portion  of  the  land  described,  which 
she  inherited  from  her  father,  Benjamin 
Beekman,  and  her  mother,  Cornelia  Beekman. 
He  married  Annetje,  daughter  of  Peter 
Quackenbush  and  among  his  children  was 
Marten,  referred  to  below. 

(III)  Marten  Beekman.  son  of  Hendrick 
Beeckman,  was  born  in  1685,  died  <  >ctober  27, 
1757.  The  descendants  of  his  three  sons  are 
very  numerous  in  New  York.  Ohio,  Indiana, 
Illinois,  Michigan.  Oregon,  and  elsewhere. 
He  married,  June  21,  1734,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Neeltje  (Bloetjoet)  Wald- 
ron.  and  granddaughter  of  Resolved  Waldron, 
of  Harlem,  who  was  sheriff  of  New  York  City 
under  Governor  Peter  Stuvvesant.  She  was 
born  in  1700  and  died  November  27.  t7<x>. 
Children  :  Elizabeth,  Hendrick.  Samuel, 
Annatie  and  Johannes. 

(IV)  Johannes  (John),  youngest  child  of 
Marten  and  Elizabeth  I  Waldron")  Beekman, 
was  born  November  5,  1741,  in  Somerset 
county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  died  March  17, 
1780  He  married,  July  30.  1760,  Arriantje 
Tunison.  born  October  T2,  1753.  died  Janu- 
ary 31.  1835.  They  were  the  parents  of  four 
children. 

(V)  Cornelius,  son  of  John  and  Arriantie 
C Tunison)  Beekman,  was  born  January  28, 
1772,  in  Somerville,  New  Jersey,  and  died 
Tuly  5,  7850.  He  married,  in  1702.  Rebecca 
Sharp,  born  Tanuarv  2.  1772.  died  February 
27,  1844.  aged  seventy-two  years.  They  had 
throe  «on>;  and  two  daughters. 

(VI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Cornelius  and  Re- 
becca ( Sharp)  Beekman.  was  born  April  27, 
tSdj,  in  Somerville,  and  died  at  Dundee  New 
York,  \pril  8.  T870.  He  married,  at  Plain- 
field.  New  lersev.  March  2t.  1827.  Evdia 
Compton  born  there  March  3.  t8o6\  died  in 
Dundee.  New  York-.  October  2.  t8or,  daugh- 
ter of  Toshna  and  Catherine  (Co^ad)  Comp- 
ton. He  resided  in  Somerville.  New  Tersev. 
and  New  York  Citv.  and  removed  to  Dundee 
after  1820.  Children:  t,  Cornelius  C, 
born  Tanuarv  27,  1828,  in  New  York,  now 
resides  at  Jacksonville.  Oregon;  married,  at 
Jacksonville,    Tulia  E.   PTofFman.      2.      Abram. 


mentioned  below.  3.  John,  born  March  9, 
[832,  at  Dundee;  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Disbrow,  (second)  Helena  Ackerson,  and 
died  at  Bath,  4.  Lydia  Ann,  May  30,  1834, 
died  in  Dundee  in  1910;  married  there  in 
[853,  Marcus  T.  Seely.  5.  Thomas  De  Witt, 
August  22,  [841,  now  resides  at  Dundee,  New 
York ;  married,  in  1863,  Isadore  Fowler,  of 
Elmira,  New  York.  6  and  7.  Cyrus  and 
Augustus,  twins,  born  August  25,  1844,  m 
Dundee.  The  former  died  there  in  185 1,  and 
the  latter  when  four  days  old. 

(VII)  Abram,  second  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Lydia  (Compton)  Beekman,  was  bom 
December  26,  1829,  in  New  York  City,  died 
at  Bath,  Steuben  county,  New  York,  May  10, 
10117.  He  married,  <  >ctober  30,  1861,  Sarah 
Mi  Kay  Fowler,  of  Bath,  born  there  Novem- 
ber 21,  1843,  died  there  September  27,  1905, 
daughter  of  John  W.  and  Helen  D.  (Clement) 
Fowler,  who  were  married  November  12, 
1823.  Children:  1.  Lydia,  born  June  28, 
1863,  married  George  II.  Parker,  of  Bath.  2. 
George  N.,  born  September  17.  1863,  in  Bath, 
now  resides  there;  married  there,  in  1891, 
Julia  E.  Averell.  3.  John  Fowder,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Edgar,  mentioned  below.  5.  Cor- 
nelius C,  mentioned  below. 

(YIIT)  John  Fowler,  second  son  of 
Abram  and  Sarah  M.  (Fowler)  Beekman, 
was  born  February  18.  1869,  in  Bath,  where 
he  is  now  living  engaged  in  the  manufacturing 
business.  He  is  a  Presbyterian  in  religious 
faith,  and  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  Bath  and  for  a  short 
time  resided  in  New  York  City,  returning  to 
his  native  place  in  1912.  He  married,  in  New 
York  City.  May  22,  1880.  Caroline  A.  Young, 
daughter  of  William  H.  and  Polly  (Brund- 
age)  Young. 

(VIII)  Edgar,  third  son  of  Abram  and 
Sarah  M.  (Fowler)  Beekman.  was  born 
March  10,  1872,  at  Bath,  and  now  resides  at 
Bronxville,  New  York.  He  was  educated  at 
the  Haverling  Union  School  in  his  native 
place  and  became  an  expert  in  corporation 
taxation.  He  is  a  Presbvterian  in  religious 
faith,  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of 
the  Aero  Club  of  America,  the  Masonic  Club, 
and  the  Bronxville  Athletic  Association.  He 
married,  at  Jersey  Citv.  New  Jersey.  Decem- 
ber 21.  1803,  May  Hastings  Leonard,  born 
August     23,     tR6q,     in     Troy,     Pennsylvania, 


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daughter  of  Solyman  and  Elizabeth  (Hast- 
ings) Leonard.  They  have  one  son,  Abram 
Leonard,  born  August  21,  1895,  at  Forest  Hill, 
New  Jersey. 

(VIII)  Cornelius  C,  youngest  child  of 
Abram  and  Sarah  M.  (Fowler)  Beekman, 
was  born  August  17,  1880,  at  Bath,  where 
he  grew  up,  receiving  his  primary  education 
at  the  Haverling  High  School  of  his  native 
town.  He  subsequently  entered  Columbia 
Law  School  of  New  York  City  and  is  now 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York, 
with  residence  in  Brooklyn.  He  is  a  Presby- 
terian in  religion,  and  a  Republican  in  his 
political  views.  He  married,  in  Brooklyn, 
November  8,  191 1,  Josephine  Estelle  Egan, 
born  November  9,  1882,  in  Syracuse,  New 
York,  daughter  of  the  late  William  G.  Egan 
and  Josephine  M.  Egan,  now  Mrs.  H.  R.  H. 
Nicholas,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 


This  surname  in  the  old 
WORTENDYKE     records  is  also  found  in 

the  forms  of  Woorten- 
dyck,  Woertendky  and  Weortendijck.  The 
bearers  of  the  name  have  a  common  ancestry 
with  those  who  bear  the  name  Somerindyke, 
the  other  forms  of  which,  found  in  the  old 
records,  are :  Somerindyck,  Somerindyk, 
Somerindick,  Somerindicke  and  Somerindijck. 
The  immigrant  ancestor,  Cornelius  Jacobsen, 
is  found  at  an  early  date  bearing  the  sobriquet 
of  Stille  (or  The  Silent),  which  may  have 
been  no  true  surname,  but  merely  an  appella- 
tion given  to  him  to  denote  one  of  his  charac- 
teristics. Cornelius  Jacobsen  came  to  this 
country  with  his  brother  John,  and  it  has  been 
said  that  the  descendants  of  Cornelius  adopted 
the  surname  of  Wortendyke,  while  the  de- 
scendants of  John  assumed  that  of  Somerin- 
dyke. Cornelius,  however,  had  a  large  family 
of  children,  and  the  descendants  of  some  of 
the  sons  took  the  surname  Wortendyke,  and 
the  descendants  of  the  others  took  that  of 
Somerindyke.  What  were  the  motives  gov- 
erning the  choice  are  not  now  quite  clear. 

(I)  Cornelius  Jacobsen,  alias  Stille,  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Wortendyke  familv. 
came  to  this  country  from  Amsterdam,  Hol- 
land, with  his  brother,  John,  in  1639.  Shortlv 
after  their  arrival  they  are  said  by  one  author- 
ity to  have  assumed  the  name  of  Somerin- 
dvke.  which  in  the  case  of  Cornelius  was  sub- 


sequently changed  to  Wortendyke.  Besides 
the  sobriquet  of  Stille,  Cornelius  also  appears 
to  have  been  known  as  "Van  Vreelandt,"  in- 
dicating from  what  part  of  Holland  he  had 
come.  One  authority  states  that  Cornelius, 
and  perhaps  also  John,  his  brother,  was  in 
New  Amsterdam  as  early  as  1631,  and  re- 
sided at  the  head  of  what  is  now  Chatham 
Square.  The  records  indicate  that  after  re- 
maining a  short  time  in  New  Amsterdam 
(later  New  York)  he  bought  and  located  on 
a  plantation  at  Bushwick,  Long  Island.  From 
there  he  removed  to  what  is  now  the  Williams- 
burg district  of  Brooklyn.  In  1664  he  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British  govern- 
ment, at  which  time  he  was  residing  on  a  farm 
of  a  hundred  acres  in  what  was  formerly  the 
Greenwich  district  of  New  York  City.  He 
married  (first)  August  24,  1692,  Classie 
Teunis ;  (second)  July  28,  1675,  Trynte  Wall- 
ings  Van  Winkle,  of  Amsterdam,  Holland, 
Among  his  children  was  Jacob,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Cornelius  Jacobsen, 
surnamed  Stille,  also  Van  Vreelandt,  also 
Somerindyke.  and  also  Wortendyke,  and  his 
wife,  Trynte  Wallings  Van  Winkle,  was  born 
in  New  Amsterdam  (later  New  York)  in 
1644.  Very  little  concerning  the  details  of 
his  career  is  given  in  the  records,  but  he  prob- 
ably died  at  a  not  very  advanced  age,  for  his 
children  numbered  only  four.  He  married, 
March  11,  1671,  Aeltje  Fredericks,  an  estim- 
able Brazilian  lady.  Children :  Jacob,  Nicho- 
las, Frederick  Jacobsen,  mentioned  below ; 
Cornelius. 

(III)  Frederick  Jacobsen,  son  of  Jacob 
and  Aeltje  (Fredericks)  Wortendyke,  was 
born  on  Manhattan  Island,  probably  about 
1679.  He  spent  his  boyhood  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  seems  to  have  taken  advantage  of 
the  educational  facilities  then  offered.  In 
course  of  time  he  located  on  the  upper  west 
side  of  Manhattan  Island.  Concerning  him 
it  is  said  by  one  authority  that  he  and  his 
descendants  permanently  adopted  the  surname 
of  Wortendyke,  which  had  been  somewhat 
loosely  applied  up  to  that  time,  while  the 
descendants  of  his  brother  retained  the  name 
of  Somerindyke,  which  had  till  that  time  alter 
nated  with  Wortendyke  as  the  family  cogno 
men.  The  old  Somerindvke  mansion  house, 
built  of  stone,  stood  a  few  years  ago  on  the 


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Bloomingdale  road  near  the  west  of  Seventy- 
fifth  Street.  About  1722  Frederick  removed 
to  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  where  he  pur- 
chased several  tracts  of  land,  the  principal 
one  of  which  was  nearly  five  hundred  acres 
in  area  at  what  is  now  Park  Ridge,  formerly 
Pascack.  On  this  tract,  lying  on  both  sides 
of  Pascack  Brook,  he  built  his  residence  and 
two  or  more  mills.  He  was  founder  of  the 
Pascack  settlement,  and  left  a  large  landed 
estate.  After  his  death  his  will  became  the 
subject  of  judicial  construction  in  an  eject- 
ment suit  reported  in  7  New  Jersey  Law  Re- 
ports, page  363.  He  married  Divertie  Rynear- 
sen  Quackenbush.  Children :  Aeltie,  Reynier, 
mentioned  below;  Elizabeth,  Frederick  F., 
Classic. 

( IV )  Reynier,  eldest  son  of  Frederick 
Jacobsen  and  Divertie  Rynearsen  (Quacken- 
bush) Wortendyke,  was  born  in  New  York, 
and  baptized  March  14,  1714.  His  mother 
was  the  granddaughter  of  Peter  Quackenbush. 
of  Oostergeest,  Holland.  With  his  brother, 
Frederick  F.,  he  obtained  part  of  the  home- 
stead farm  at  Pascack.  Reynier  was  a  man  of 
considerable  varied  ability,  not  content  with 
the  scope  that  agricultural  interests  alone 
offered.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  and 
brought  his  property  to  a  high  state  of  devel- 
opment. But  a  good  deal  of  his  time  was  also 
occupied  in  running  a  mill  and  in  other  avo- 
cations leading  him  into  the  industrial  and 
commercial  field.  He  married  (first)  Decem- 
ber 10,  174^,  Jannetje  Peters  Durie.  He  mar- 
ried (  second)  March  2,  1752,  Jannetje  Smith. 
His  original  will  was  made  February  24,  1799, 
and  to  this  he  added  a  codicil,  February  6, 
[799.  By  thi-  will  be  bequeaths  to  his  eldest 
son,  Frederick,  his  old  Dutch  Bible,  which 
was  to  continue  in  descent  to  the  eldest  son. 
This  will  indicates  possession  of  a  large 
amount  of  real  estate  and  personal  property 
Probably  not  all  of  his  children  were  living 
at  that  time,  as  several  are  not  mentioned  in 
the  will.  To  each  of  the  living  sons  he  gave 
valuable  lands,  and  provided  for  liberal  lega- 
cies in  cash  to  his  daughter  and  to  the  children 
of  a  deceased  daughter.  Children:  Frederick, 
Peter,  Jannetje,  Cornelius,  died  young;  Diver- 
tie, Cornelius,  Reynier,  Jenny,  married  Fred- 
erick Wortendyke  ;  John,  Jacob,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Mary,  Albert,  Aeltje,  married  John  De- 
baun. 


( V )  Jacob,  son  of  Reynier  and  Jannetj* 
Peters  (Durie)  Wortendyke,  was  born  Mai 
5,  1763,  at  Pascack,  died  December  18,  1858 
From  his  father  he  received  the  land  on  whicl 
he  was  then  living  in  the  town  of  Harring 
ton,  Bergen  county,  containing  fifty  acres,  anc 
three  other  parcels  amounting  to  eleven  acres 
including  three  acres  of  fresh  meadow  at  Tap 
pan.  Besides  this  he  was  to  receive  one-fourtl 
of  his  father's  right  in  the  swamp  known  a: 
Bear  Gat,  lying  in  the  town  of  Harrington 
and  in  consideration  of  this  inheritance  hi 
was  to  pay  thirty  pounds  cash  to  one  of  hi: 
sisters.  He  continued  in  the  cultivation  0 
his  lands  at  Pascack,  and  by  his  skillful  op 
eration  and  development  his  estate  became 
very  valuable.  He  married  Elizabeth  Camp 
bell,  born  October  10,  1773,  at  Pascack,  Pari 
Ridge,  New  Jersey,  and  died  March  20,  1862 
Children :  Luthischc,  Reynier,  mentioned  be 
low ;  Elizabeth. 

(VI)  Reynier  (2),  son  of  Jacob  and  Eliza 
beth  (Campbell)  Wortendyke,  was  born  De 
cember,  1792,  at  Chestnut  Ridge,  Bergei 
county,  New  Jersey,  died  December  3,  1884 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  owned  several  hundrei 
acres  of  land  in  Chestnut  Ridge,  where  h 
died.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  ; 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  H 
took  considerable  interest  in  public  affairs,  a 
also  in  the  welfare  of  his  party,  and  he  hel< 
several  local  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  town 
He  was  a  man  of  considerable  ability,  am 
much  respected  throughout  his  long  life.  T 
the  property  that  come  to  him  by  inheritanc 
he  added  considerably,  and  greatly  developei 
it  along  various  lines.  He  sought  always  ti 
use  the  most  approved  methods  in  farming 
and  his  main  farm  was  one  of  the  model  one 
of  the  country.  He  owned  a  considerabl 
amount  of  live  stock  as  well.  He  marriei 
Cornelia  Haring.  She  died  August  12,  1891 
Children :  Jacob  Reynier,  mentioned  below 
Peter  Reynier,  Garrett,  Elizabeth,  who  mar 
ried    Peter   Merseles   Holdrom. 

(VII)  Jacob  Reynier,  son  of  Reynier  (2 
and  Cornelia  (Haring)  Wortendyke,  wa 
born  at  Chestnut  Ridge,  Bergen  county,  Nev 
Jersey,  November  18,  1818,  died  in  Terse; 
City,  November  2,  1868.  He  was  graduatei 
from  Rutgers  College  in  1839,  after  which  h 
read  law  in  the  office  and  became  a  partner  o 
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mission  to  the  bar  he  attained  great  success  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  and  held  numer- 
ous official  positions  in  Hudson  county.  He 
organized  the  Jersey  City  water  board  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  riparian  commis- 
sion. In  1857  he  was  elected  to  congress  from 
the  Hudson  district  and  served  two  terms  in 
that  body.  In  1868  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Democratic  National  Convention.  His  posi- 
tion as  a  prominent  lawyer  of  New  Jersey 
made  him  well  known,  and  he  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  his  colleagues  and  friends. 
In  religion  he  was  affiliated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church.  He  was  always  a  staunch 
Democrat  in  active  public  life  and  remained 
such  until  his  death.  He  married  Susan  Jane 
Doremus,  born  August  18,  1826,  in  Pompton 
Plains,  New  Jersey,  died  August  25,  1910. 
Children :  Nicholas  Doremus,  married  Mary 
Elizabeth  Quick ;  Cornelia  Elizabeth,  married 
William  Perry  Watson,  M.D. ;  Reynier  Jacob, 
mentioned  below;  Jacob,  died  in  1867;  Jacob 
Reynier,   married  Anna   Traphagan. 

(VIII)  Reynier  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob  Rey- 
nier and  Susan  Jane  (Doremus)  Wortendyke. 
was  born  August  24,  i860,  in  Jersey  City,  New 
Jersey.  He  graduated  from  Rutgers  College 
in  1882,  with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  State  of  New 
Jersey  in  the  June  term  of  1885,  and  has  since 
been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law 
in  Jersey  City,  becoming  a  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Carrick  &  Wortendyke,  in  May,  1890, 
with  offices  at  No.  15  Exchange  Place,  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey.  Mr.  Wortendyke  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Jersey  City.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  at  Newtonville,  Massachusetts, 
October  17,  1893,  Carolyn  M.  Cooley,  born 
in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  October  27, 
1870,  died  September  22,  1900.  He  married 
(second)  Carolina  Laubach,  born  in  Hamil- 
ton, Ohio ;  the  second  marriage  occurring  at 
Hamilton,  Ohio,  October  17,  1906.  Children 
by  first  wife:  Reynier  J.,  Jr. ;  Howard  Blakes- 
ley  and  Carolyn. 


The  vast  majority  of  people 
BOGARDUS     bearing  the  name  of  Bogar- 

dus  are  descended  from  the 
Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus,  the  minister  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  in  New  Amsterdam, 
who  came   from  Holland  in   1633  with  Gov- 


ernor Wouter  Van  Twiller.  The  church  in 
which  he  preached  stood  at  what  is  now  No. 
^^  Pearl  Street,  and  his  residence  was  at  No. 
23  Whitehall  Street.  He  married  the  widow 
of  Roeloff  Jansen,  the  famous  Anneke  Jans, 
and  had  children :  Jonas,  Willem,  Cornelis, 
Peter.  Several  branches  of  the  family  were 
deeply  involved  in  the  well  known  contest 
between  the  heirs  of  Anneke  Jans  and  Trinity- 
Church.  Anneke  came  to  Rensselaerwyck  in 
1630  with  her  husband,  Roeloff  Jansen,  who 
acted  as  assistant  bouwmeister  for  the  patroon 
at  a  salary  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  guilders. 
Her  marriage  with  the  Rev.  Everardus  Bogar- 
dus or  Bogart  or  Bogard,  took  place  in  1637. 
There  were  others  of  the  name  at  that  early 
time  and  their  connection  with  the  Rev.  Ever- 
ardus is  not  very  clear.  Willem  Bogardus,  of 
New  Amsterdam,  in  1656  was  appointed  clerk 
in  the  secretary's  office  in  New  Amsterdam, 
and  in  1687  postmaster  of  the  province.  This 
Willem  Bogardus  married  and  had  eight  chil- 
dren. Another  Bogardus,  Cornelis,  married 
Helena  Teller,  daughter  of  Willem  Teller,  of 
Albany.  He  lived  in  Albany,  where  he  died 
in  1666,  leaving  one  son,  Cornelis,  who  mar- 
ried Rachel  De  Wit,  and  died  October  13, 
1707.  Peter  Bogardus,  mariner,  resided  in 
Albany  near  the  close  of  his  life,  and  then  he 
removed  to  Kingston  where  he  died  in  1703. 
In  1673  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates  of  the 
town,  and  in  1690  was  commissioned  with 
others  to  treat  with  the  Five  Nations  and  to 
look  after  the  defense  of  the  town.  He  made 
his  will  February  3,  1701.  His  wife  was 
Wyntie  Cornelis  (Bosch)  Borgardus,  daughter 
of  Cornelis  Teunise  and  Maritie  Thomas 
(Mingael)  Bosch,  who  afterwards  married 
Turriaen  Janse  Groenwout  in  1664.  Cornelis 
Bogardus  was  a  schoolmaster  in  Albany  in 
1700,  and  shortly  after  that  year  he  removed 
with  his  wife,  Rachel  Tjerckse  (De  Wit) 
Bogardus.  to  Kingston,  his  wife's  native  place. 
He  died  October  13,  1707.  Shibboleth  Bogar- 
dus and  Ann,  his  wife,  lived  in  Albany.  His 
house  in  1720  and  from  that  year  to  1737  was 
on  the  north  corner  of  James  and  Steuben 
Streets.  They  had  nine  children,  most  of 
whom  grew  up. 

In  the  annals  of  Albany  at  an  early  period 
we  read  also  of  other  men  of  the  name  of 
Bogardus,  Anthony  Bogardus,  Ephraim  Bo- 
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name  itself  is  found  in  the  form  of  Bogard 
and  Bogardus,  as  well  as  Bogart.  The  name 
is,  however,  distinct  from  that  of  Bogert,  the 
bearers  of  which  are  in  the  main  descended 
from  Cornelis  Jansen  Bogaerdt,  who  came 
from  Holland  before  1661,  and  settled  on  a 
village  lot  at  Flatbush,  Long  Island,  which 
he  shortly  sold  to  Peter  Jansen.  In  1*177 
Cornelis  Jansen  Bogaerdt  was  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  Flatbush  patent,  and  died  at 
that  place  in  1684.  The  name  of  his  wife 
who  accompanied  him  from  Holland  is  given 
as  Geesie  Williams,  which  indicates  that  her 
father's  christian  name  was  William.  They 
had  a  number  of  children  who  settled  at  Hack- 
ensack,  New  Jersey.  This  name  of  Bogert 
is  often  found  in  various  spellings  resembling 
the  variations  of  Bogardus,  and  there  has  been 
a  certain  amount  of  confusion  in  consequence 
Of  the  name  two  distinct  forms  are  widely  in 
use  at  the  present  day,  many  employing  both 
Bogert  and  Bogart.  There  were  several  im- 
migrants hearing  the  name  among  the  early 
settlers  of  New  Amsterdam  and  Long  Island, 
and  their  descendants  have  scattered  over  a 
wide  region,  being  especially  numerous  in 
northeastern  New  Jersey. 

The  conspicuous  Dutch  traits  of  industry 
and  thrift  have  been  well  perpetuated  in  both 
the  Bogardus  and  Bogart  families,  who  are 
connected  in  various  ways.  A  great  number 
of  the  members  of  various  branches  of  the 
family  have  been  engaged  in  agriculture  and 
its  allied  interests  and  industries  from  the  be- 
ginning. In  later  generations  many  bearing 
the  Bogardus  name  have  also  been  conspicuous 
in  the  ranks  of  the  professions  as  well  as  in 
mercantile  life.  The  family  is  a  fine  one,  with 
a  Dutch  ancestry  second  to  none,  associated 
for  all  time  with  the  development  of  the  new 
world,  in  the  founding  of  whom  they  bore 
1  worthy  part. 

( I )  Stephen  H.  Bogardus,  ancestor  of  the 
Bogardus  family,  was  born  probably  near 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  The  facts  relating 
to  his  life  are  meagre,  but  there  can  be  very 
little  doubt  that  he  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  the  Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus,  the  first  set- 
tled Dutch  minister  of  any  religion  in  the 
New  Netherlands.  Investigation  so  far  has 
not  revealed  the  name  of  his  wife  or  any  of 
his  children  except  one.     He  was  engaged  in 


the    leather   business,    and    died    in    the   early 
eighties. 

(II)  Stephen  H.  (2),  son  of  Stephen  H. 
(1)  Bogardus,  was  probably  born  in  Pough- 
keepsie, New  York,  and  died  of  yellow  fever 
in  the  South.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools,  and  enlisted  as  corporal 
in  the  New  York  Volunteers  in  the  company 
known  as  the  Duryea  Zouaves.  He  was  ad- 
jutant of  Purnell's  Legion  of  Maryland  Vol- 
unteers, and  was  captain  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Ninety-second  Regiment,  New  York 
Volunteers.  He  was  also  second  lieutenant  of 
the  Fourth  Infantry  Regulars,  United  States 
Army,  and  was  mustered  out  in  Janu- 
ary, 1871,  after  he  had  been  wounded.  The 
principal  items  of  his  military  history  are  set 
forth  in  "Heitman's  Historical  Register  and 
Dictionary  of  the  United  States  Army,"  1789- 
1903.  Captain  Bogardus  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  most  of  his  life  was  spent  at 
Poughkeepsie,  Dutchess  county,  New  York. 
He  married  Ellen  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
James  and  Harriet  (Willard)  Haile,  of  Platts- 
burg.  She  was  born  at  Plattsburg,  New 
York,  March  19,  1849,  all(l  died  at  Green- 
wich, Connecticut,  in  January,  1903.  Their 
only  child  was  John  Haile,  mentioned  below. 

(Ill)   John  Haile,  son  of  Stephen  H.    (2) 
and  Ellen  Mary  (Haile)   Bogardus,  was  born 
at   Plattsburg,   New  York,  January  29.    1870. 
He  received  his  preliminary  education  at  the 
Plattsburg  Academy,  New  York,  at  the  board- 
ing  school   at   Westport,   Connecticut,   and   at 
the  boarding  school  at  Hamden.  Connecticut, 
near    New    Haven.      He   was    also    for    some 
time  at  a  boarding  school  at  Cornwall-on-Hud- 
son.     After  leaving  school  he  went  into  the 
hardware  business  with  Russell  &  Erwin,  who 
were    hardware    manufacturers,    and    he    re- 
mained with  that  concern  about  one  year.    His 
health,    however,    was    not    very    strong,    and 
he  decided  that  a  change  of  occupation  would 
be  agreeable.     He  thus  came  to  teach  scho  * 
at  Lakewood,  New  Jersey,  his  subjects  bei' 
mathematics   and    English,   and    he   confirm 
at  that  occupation  for  a  period  of  from  tv 
to   three   vears.      From    New   Jersey   he   we 
to    San    Francisco,    California,    and    there    ! 
engaged   in  teaching  for  about  another  yer 
At  the  end  of  that  time  he  returned  to  Ne 
York,  and  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  t 
office  of  Jay  &  Candler,  at  48  Wall  Strei 


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He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  in 
October,  1902,  and  has  practiced  in  New 
York  since  that  time.  Mr.  Bogardus  enlisted 
in  the  Twenty-third  Infantry,  National 
Guard,  New  York,  February  7,  1893,  and  was 
promoted  corporal,  sergeant,  color  sergeant, 
battalion  sergeant  major,  battalion  quarter- 
master and  commissary,  with  rank  of  second 
lieutenant,  and  battalion  adjutant,  with  rank 
of  first  lieutenant.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  he  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Bar  Association,  New  York  County  Lawyers' 
Association,  Marine  and  Field  Club,  United 
Service  Club,  National  Geographic  Society, 
Military  Service  Institution  and  United  States 
Infantry  Association. 

He  married,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1900,  Lillian  May,  born  in  New  York 
City,  March  4,  1870,  daughter  of  William 
Henry  and  Harriet  E.   (Wiggins)   Stewart. 


The  Sahler  family  is  of  Ger- 
SAHLER  man  origin  and  dates  back  to 
the  tenth  century  when  we  find 
the  record  of  Heinrich  von  der  Sahle,  who 
participated  in  one  of  the  tournaments  of  that 
day.  The  family  was  noble  as  well  as  ancient 
and  had  its  home  in  that  part  of  the  Rhen- 
ish Palatinate  that  is  now  in  Hesse-Darm- 
stadt. The  original  name  of  the  family  was 
von  Heppenheim,  derived  from  their  ancestral 
home,  but  in  1019  Werner  von  Heppenheim 
removed  to  Alzey  on  the  Selz,  near  Mentz, 
and  lived  in  the  Saal  or  "Hall"  there,  whence 
he  received  the  name  Werner  von  Heppen- 
heim von  dem  Saale  which  later  on  became 
corrupted  to  von  Sahler  or  Sahler. 

(I)  Abraham  Sahler,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  emigrated  about  1736  and 
settled  on  the  banks  of  the  Perkiomen  river 
about  twenty-five  miles  from  Philadelphia  and 
became  a  large  landowner  there.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rachel  (Du 
Bois)  Du  Bois,  who  was  born  at  Perkiomen, 
Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1724  (see  Du  Bois  V).  Children:  1. 
Isaac,  married  Eleanor  Hartley,  of  York 
county,  Pennsylvania.  2.  Abraham  (2).  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Robert 
Patton  4.  Rachel,  married  John  Gross.  5. 
Catherine,  married  Christian  Gross.  6.  Dan- 
iel, born  April  16,  1762,  died  February  20, 
1834;  married,   May  8,   1786,   Elizabeth  Van 


VVagenen.    7.  John,  born  November  23,  1765; 
married  Ann  Barlow. 

(II)  Abraham  (2),  son  of  Abraham  (1) 
and  Elizabeth  (Du  Bois)  Sahler,  was  born  at 
Perkiomen,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  September,  1738,  died  in  the  town 
of  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 14,  1800,  and  was  buried  in  the  Kyserike 
cemetery.  He  married  first)  Tryntje,  daugh- 
ter of  Solomon  and  Hannah  (Bruyn)  Van 
VVagenen,  who  was  baptized  at  Kingston, 
New  York,  January  7,  1752.  He  married 
(second)  Hester,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Maria 
(Bruyn)  Hasbrouck,  who  was  born  January 
8,  1760  (see  Hasbrouck  in  Index).  Chil- 
dren (two  by  first  marriage):  Abraham  (3), 
referred  to  below ;  Solomon,  referred  to  be- 
low ;  daughter,  who  married  Louis  Stilwell ; 
daughter,  who  married  Simeon  Du  Bois ; 
daughter,  who  married  Elias  De  Puy. 

(III)  Abraham  (3),  son  of  Abraham  (2) 
and  Tryntje  (Van  Wagenen)  Sahler,  was  born 
in  the  town  of  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  and  died  there.  He  married  Nellie 
Hasbrouck.  Children  :  Abraham  Louis  ;  Jacob 
R.  H.,  referred  to  below;  James  B. ;  Ann 
Eliza. 

(IV)  Jacob  R.  H.,  son  of  Abraham  (3) 
and  Nellie  (Hasbrouck)  Sahler,  married  El- 
mira,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Sah- 
ler) van  de  Mark,  and  granddaughter  of  Dan- 
iel and  Elizabeth  (Van  Wagenen)  Sahler, 
referred  to  above.  Children :  Abraham  J., 
Henry,  James,  referred  to  below;  Isaac  L., 
Daniel,  Catherine  J.,  Elizabeth. 

(V)  James,  son  of  Jacob  R.  H.  and  Elmira 
(van  de  Mark)  Sahler,  married  Sarah  Alliger. 
Children:  Jennie,  referied  to  below;  Eliza- 
beth, married  Dr.  N.  A.  Monroe,  of  Stone 
Ridge,  Ulster  county,  New  York ;  Irving, 
James  B.,  Louis  D.,  twin  with  James  B.,  Har- 
ry, Olive  Reid. 

(VI)  Jennie,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah 
(Alliger)  Sahler,  married  in  1880,  Dr.  Charles 
Oliver  Sahler,  son  of  Solomon  and  Caroline 
(Winfield)  Sahler,  referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  Solomon,  son  of  Abraham  (2)  and 
Tryntje  (Van  Wagenen)  Sahler,  was  born 
in  the  town  of  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  November  14,  1775,  died  there  Febru- 
ary 13,  1827.  He  was  a  landowner  and  slave- 
holder, a  surveyor  and  supervisor  of  the  town 
from  1819  to  1827.     In  1816  he  was  appointed 


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coroner  by  Governor  Tompkins.  He  married 
(first)  August  25,  1797,  Nellie,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sophie  (Burgess)  Perrine,  who  was 
born  June  6,  1777,  died  February  14,  1805 
lie  married  (second)  Catherine  Davis.  Chil- 
dren (four  by  first  marriage)  :  Tryantje  Van 
nen,  married  Andries  Roosa ;  Daniel, 
died  111  infancy:  Abraham,  referred  to  below  ". 
John  Perrine,  born  January  26,  1805,  died 
June  27,  [866,  married,  February  ,},  [830, 
Maria  Hasbrouck;  Isaac  Du  Bois,  married 
Maria  Schoonmaker ;  Jacob,  died  unmarried; 
Sarah  Catherine,  married  Dr  George 
(  hambers. 

1  IV)  Abraham  (4),  son  of  Solomon  and 
Nellie  (  Perrine)  Sahler,  was  burn  in  the  town 
of  Rochester,  Clster  county,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 14,  1X02.  died  there  in  March,  1857 
He  inherited  his  father's  homestead  near  Ky- 
serike  and  lived  there  until  1X40  when  he 
bought  and  removed  to  the  Van  Wagenen 
homestead  in  the  same  place,  lie  was  super- 
visor from  [839  to  1X41  and  from  1845  '" 
1851.  lie  was  a  veterinary  surgeon  and  also 
captain  of  cavalry  in  the  state  militia.  lie 
married,  January  3,  1822,  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Judge  Richard  and  Wyntje  (Robinson) 
Davis,  who  was  born  February  1,  1803.  Chil- 
dren: Solomon,  referred  to  below;  Isaac 
Robinson,  married  Kate  Schoonmaker;  Mary 
Ellen,  married   Lyman  Terpenning. 

(V)  Solomon  (2),  son  of  Abraham  (4) 
and  Catherine  (Davis)  Sahler,  was  born  in 
the  town  of  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  December  22.  1X27.  He  inherited  the 
Van  Wagenen  homestead  at  Kyserike.  lie 
married,  February  24,  1X52.  Caroline,  daughter 
of  Casparus  and  Jane  (Van  Aken)  Winfield, 
who  was  bom  February  20,  1832  (see  Win- 
field).  Children:  Charles  Oliver,  referred  to 
below;  Kate  Jane,  married  Luther  H.,  son  of 
Abraham  J.  and  grandson  of  Jacob  R.  H.  and 
Elmira  (van  de  Mark)  Sahler,  referred  to 
above ;  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  Lawrence  H. 
Swisher;  Caspar,  died  in  infancy;  Jeannette, 
died  in  in  fancy. 

(VI)  Dr.  Charles  Oliver  Sahler.  son  of 
Solomon  (2)  and  Caroline  (  Winfield  1  Sahler, 
was  horn  at  the  home  of  his  maternal  grand- 
father in  the  town  of  Esopus,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  June  23,  1854,  and  is  now  living 
in  Kingston.  Ulster  county,  New  York.  He 
jeceived    his    early    education    in    the    public 


schools,  and  also  under  the  tutorship  of  John 
H.  Van  Wagenen,  who  was  at  one  time  princi- 
pal of  the  University  of  Northern  Pennsyl- 
vania He  also  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  (  med- 
ical department  of  Columbia  University),  in 
New  York  City,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
the  class  of  1878.  He  immediately  commenced 
the  active  practice  of  his  profession  in  Ky- 
serike, and  remained  there  for  thirteen  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  opened  an  office 
in  Kingston.  Early  in  his  career  he  became 
interested  in  mental  therapeutics,  and  for 
many  years,  even  as  a  young  physician  and 
knowing  nothing  of  the  experiments  that  were 
then  being  made  in  Europe,  he  made  use  of 
it  in  his  practice,  often  being  himself  aston- 
ished at  the  results  that  he  obtained,  .and  he 
was  among  the  first  of  the  regular  practitioners 
in  this  country  to  recognize  the  power  of  the 
mind  as  a  curative  agency,  and  largely  through 
his  own  experiments  discovered  that  diseases 
could  be  overcome  through  the  mind,  that 
failed  to  respond  to  ordinary  medical  methods, 
and  began  using  mental  suggestion  in  his  prac- 
tice with  most  gratifying  results.  This  fact 
becoming  known,  his  services  were  sought  to 
such  an  extent  that  he  finally  .abandoned  his 
large  lucrative  medical  and  surgical  practice 
and  opened  a  sanitarium  for  the  treatment  of 
nervous,  mental  and  functional  disorders  by 
the  then  almost  unknown  methods  of  psycho- 
theraphy.  In  1893  ne  purchased  the  fine  old 
estate  of  Marius  Schoonmaker,  in  Kingston, 
anil  in  1898  founded  there  the  first  mental 
healing  sanitarium  in  America.  From  the 
first  the  success  of  the  undertaking  was  phe- 
nomenal, and  it  was  but  a  short  time  before 
he  was  compelled  to  make  extensive  addi- 
tions to  the  building,  and  to  erect  others,  be- 
sides taking  in  all  the  available  cottages  and 
extra  rooms  in  the  neighborhood;  and  in  iqii 
he  erected  a  handsome,  five  story,  stone  stn 
ture  to  accommodate  the  patients  who  cai 
to  him  from  all  parts  of  the  world.  He 
the  author  of  the  book  "Psychic  Life  a 
Laws,''  is  a  contributor  to  several  magazin 
and  for  a  time  occupied  the  chair  of  Nerve 
Diseases  and  Suggestive  Therapeutics  of  t 
post-graduate  school  of  Eastern  College  a 
of  the  Psychological  Medical  Society  at  IT 
adelphia.     He  has  been  vice-president  of  t 


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American  Association  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, and  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Psychological  Medical  and  Surgical  Society, 
ami  of  the  Medico-Legal  Society,  and  has 
lectured  before  the  Phrenological  Institute 
and  Medical  and  Psychic  Study  societies  of 
New  York  and  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Kingston  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons;  Mount  Horeb  Chapter,  and  Rondout 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  married, 
in  1880,  Jennie,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah 
(Alligerj  Sahler,  referred  to  above.  Child 
(adcpted)  :  Nellie,  daughter  of  Simon  Daven- 
port and  Jennie  (Sahler)  Davenport. 

(The  Du   Bois  Line.) 

The  Du  Bois  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  of 
the  noble  houses  of  Cotentin,  in  the  duchy 
of  Normandy,  the  heraldic  records  in  Paris 
beginning  with  Geoffroi  du  Bois,  a  knight 
banneret,  and  a  companion  of  Duke  William 
in  the  conquest  of  England  in  1066. 

(I)  Chretien  Du  Bois,  the  first  member  of 
the  branch  of  the  family  under  consideration 
of  whom  we  have  any  definite  information, 
was  a  Huguenot  gentleman  of  the  family  of 
Du  Bois,  seigneurs  de  Beau-fermez  et  de 
Bourse,  and  owned  an  estate  at  Wicres,  in  La 
Bassee,  near  Lille,  in  French  Flanders,  now 
Artois.  Among  his  children  were :  Louis,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Jacques,  baptized  June  18, 
1622,  died  in  1676,  married  April  25,  1663, 
Pieronne  Bentyn,  emigrated  to  Esopus,  New 
York,  in  1675;  Albert,  baptized  November  13, 
1625;  Francoise,  married  April  20,  1649, 
Pierre  Biljouw;  Anne. 

(II)  Louis,  son  of  le  sieur  Chretien  Du 
Bois,  was  born  at  Wicres,  October  27,  1627, 
died  in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  June,  1696 
He  emigrated  first  to  Mannheim,  in  the  Pala- 
tinate, where  he  married  and  two  of  his  sons 
were  born ;  April  27,  1660,  came  with  his  fam- 
ily in  the  ship  "Gilded  Otter"  to  New  Nether- 
land.  He  and  his  father-in-law  were  granted 
by  patent  considerable  tracts  of  land  in  Hur- 
ley where  they  both  lived  until  their  removal 
to  New  Paltz.  June  7,  1663.  his  wife  and 
three  sons  were  captured  with  others  by  the 
Indians  and  held  prisoners  for  three  months, 
and  the  campaign  to  rescue  them  resulted  in 
the  purchase  of  the  Walkill  Valley,  by  the 
Huguenot  settlers,  from  the  Indians,  which 
purchase  was  patented  to  them  by  Governor 
Edmund  Andros,  September  29,  1677.     Here 


during  the  following  spring  they  founded  "Le 
nouveau  Palatinat"  or  New  Paltz.  In  1686 
Louis  Du  Bois  and  his  wife  removed  from 
New  Paltz  to  Kingston.  He  married,  in  the 
French  church  in  Mannheim,  October  10, 
1665,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Mathew  and 
Madeline  (Jorisse)  Blanchan,  who  died  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  in  1706.  Children: 
Abraham,  referred  to  below;  Isaac,  born  in 
1659,  died  June  28,  1690,  married  in  June, 
1683,  Maria  Hasbrouck;  Jacob,  baptized  Oc- 
tober 9,  1661,  died  in  1745,  married,  March 
8,  1689,  Lysbeth  Varnoye;  Sarah,  baptized 
September  14,  1664,  married,  December  12, 
1682,  Joost  Janz,  of  Marbletown ;  David,  bap- 
tized March  13,  1667,  married,  March  8,  1689, 
Cornelia  Varnoye ;  Solomon,  referred  to  be- 
low;  Rebecca,  baptized  June  18,  1671,  died 
young;  Ragel,  baptized  in  April,  1675,  died 
young ;  Louis,  born  in  1677,  married,  Janu- 
ary 19,  1701,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham 
and  Maria  (Deyo)  Hasbrouck;  Martin,  born 
January  3,  1679,  married,  January  17,  1697, 
Sara  Matthyssen. 

(III)  Abraham,  son  of  Louis  and  Catherine 
(Blanchan)  Du  Bois,  was  born  in  Mannheim, 
Germany,  December  26,  1657,  died  at  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  October  7, 
173 1.  He  married,  March  6,  1681,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Christian  Deyo.  Children :  Sara, 
baptized  June  20,  1682,  married,  June  13,  1703, 
Roelof  Eltinge;  Abraham  (2),  born  April  17, 
1685;  Lea,  born  October  16,  1687,  married 
Philip  Fires  or  Ferre ;  Rachel,  referred  to 
below ;  Mary,  twin  with  Rachel,  baptized  Oc- 
tober 13,  1689,  died  young;  Catherine,  born 
May  21,  1693,  married,  October  4,  1728,  Wil- 
liam Danielsz;  Noah,  baptized  February  18, 
1700.  died  young;  Joel,  baptized  June  20,  1703, 
died  in  1734. 

(IV)  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Margaret  (Deyo)  Du  Bois,  was  baptized  at 
New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 13,  1689.  She  married  (first)  April  6, 
1713,  Isaac,  son  of  Solomon  and  Tryntje 
(Gerritson)  Du  Bois,  referred  to  below,  and 
married  (second)  Coats. 

(Ill)  Solomon,  son  of  Louis  and  Catherine 
( Blanchan )  Du  Bois,  was  born  at  Wiltwyck 
or  Hurley,  about  1670,  died  at  New  Paltz, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  between  June  26, 
1756,  and  February  15,  1759.  He  married 
about    1690,    Tryntje   Gerritsen,   daughter   of 


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Gerrit  Focken  and  Jacomyntje  Sleght.  Chil- 
dren: Isaac,  referred  to  below;  Jacomyntje, 
baptized  November  5,  1693,  married,  April 
23,  1715,  Barent,  son  of  Isaac  and  Maria 
(Hasbrouck)  Du  Bois;  Benjamin,  baptized 
May  16,  1697,  married  Catrina  Zuylant; 
Sarah,  baptized  February  11,  1700,  married, 
November  17,  1720,  Simon  Jacobse  Van 
Wagenen;  Catryn,  baptized  October  18,  1702, 
died  in  infancy;  Cornells,  died  in  1798,  mar- 
ried, April  7.  [729,  Anna  Margaret  Hooghtel- 
ing;  Magdalena,  baptized  April  15,  1705,  died 
young;  Catherine,  married  December  9,  1722, 
Petrus  Matheus  Louw;  Deborah,  died  young; 
Hendrikus,  baptized  December  31,  1710,  mar- 
ried. May  6,  1733,  Jannetje  Hooghteling; 
Magdalena,  baptized  December  20,  1713,  mar- 
ried, July   14,   1734,  Josiah  Eltinge. 

(IV)  Isaac,  son  of  Solomon  and  Tryntje 
(Gerritsen)  1  Hi  Bois,  was  baptized  at  New 
Paltz,  September  21,  1691,  died  at  Perkiomen, 
Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  February 
10,  172').  He  married,  April  6.  17 13,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Margaret  (Deyo) 
Du  Bois,  referred  to  above.  Children:  Cath- 
erine, born  February  13,  1 7 1 5  ;  Margaret,  born 
about  1717;  Sarah,  born  March  19,  1720;  Re- 
becca, born  August  14,  1722;  Elizabeth,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(  V  1  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rachel 
(Du  Bois  i  Du  Bois,  was  born  September  10, 
1724.  She  married  Abraham  Sahler,  the  em- 
igrant, referred  to  above. 

(The  Winfield  Line.) 

Caroline  Winfield,  mother  of  Charles  Oliver 
Sahler,  M.D.,  was  born  February  20,  1832, 
died  March  2,  1896.  She  was  married  to 
Solomon  Sahler,  February  24,   1852. 

Casparus  Winfield,  grandfather  of  Charles 
Oliver  Sahler,  was  born  August  4,  1795,  died 
January  15,  1870.  His  wife,  Jane  Van  Aken, 
was  born  October  9,  1798,  and  died  June  14, 
1842.  She  was  the  daughter  of  John  Van 
Aken  and  Maria  Degruff.  Grandmother  and 
grandfather  Winfield  were  both  from  the  town 
of  Esopus,  and  buried  in  the  Grand  View 
cemetery,  town  of  Esopus. 

John  Winfield,  great-grandfather  of  Charles 
Oliver  Sahler,  was  born  September  9,  1764, 
died  February  5,  1853;  and  his  wife,  Jane 
Van  Nostrand,  was  born  March  12,  1770,  died 
October  26,  1849.  John  Winfield  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution.     His  gun  is  now  in  posses- 


sion of  James  M.  Winfield,  M.D.,  Brooklyn, 
New  York.  He  also  was  made  member  of  the 
Livingston  Lodge,  No.  23,  December  18,  1799. 
Fliere  is  a  silver  medal  with  name,  date  of 
initiation  and  with  the  dove  and  olive  branch 
on  one  side,  and  on  the  reverse  side  all  of  the 
emblems  of  the  Master  Mason.  This  jewel 
was  given  to  his  son,  Casparus  Winfield,  who 
was  also  a  member  of  the  same  lodge,  called 
Kingston  No.  10.  He,  John  Winfield,  attended 
a  banquet  given  by  the  city  of  Kingston  to 
its  veterans  September  to,  1832;  was  over- 
seer for  Hurley  in  1781  ;  assessor  for  Esopus 
in  181 1  ;  trustee  of  the  corporation  of  Kings- 
ton, 1813-14-15;  school  commissioner  for 
Esopus,  1813-44.  Jane  Van  Nostrand  was  a 
daughter  of  Casparus  Van  Nostrand,  a 
soldier  of  the  revolution,  and  Eva  Freling- 
huysen  ;  and  a  granddaughter  of  Judge  Van 
Nostrand  and  Annatie  Steimets.  Eva  Frel- 
inghuysen was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Johan- 
nes Frelinghuysen  and  Dinah  Van  Berr,  and 
a  sister  of  General  Frederick  Frelinghuysen. 
Their  grandfather,  the  Rev.  Jacobus  Freling- 
huysen, was  sent  by  the  classes  of  Amster- 
dam to  take  charge  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  in  New  Jersey  in  1719.  He  married 
Eva   Terhune. 

John  Winfield,  great-great-grandfather  of 
Charles  Oliver  Sahler,  was  born  March  8, 
1727,  died  January  9,  1798.  His  wife,  Eliza- 
beth Smit,  was  born  August   11,   1828. 

John  Winfield,  great-great-great-grand- 
father   of    Charles    Oliver    Sahler,    was    born 

September  6,  .     He  was  a  soldier  in  the 

foot  militia  for  the  battle  of  Shawangunk, 
under  Colonel  Rutsert,  in  171 5,  Zara  Kool, 
his  wife,  born  November  16.  1694,  ar|d  mar- 
ried in  1716,  was  the  daughter  of  Simon  Kool 
and  Biliye  Pieters ;  granddaughter  of  Jacob 
Barent  Kool,  and  Maria  Simmons,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Barent  Jacobset  Kool  and 
Marie   Leenderts. 

Richard  Winfield  (Rutsert  Wintveld),  great- 
great-great-great-grandfather  of  Charles  Ol- 
iver Sahler,  was  born  in  Derby,  England,  ir 
1657.  He  also  lived  in  Albany,  New  York 
His  wife,  Magdalena  Schutt,  was  a  widow  oi 
Gerrit  Decker,  and  daughter  of  William  Jan- 
sen  Schutt.  Of  the  family  of  Winfield,  says 
Camden,  famous  for  their  knighthood  and 
ancient  nobility,  as  stated  of  them  before 
seated  at  Wingfield,  county  of  Suffolk,  before 


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the  conquest  of  1066.  The  castle  of  Wing- 
field  is  situated  low,  without  any  earthmarks 
tor  its  defense.  The  ruined  walls  are  still 
standing,  the  south  front  or  principal  entrance 
entire.  The  chequered  fates  and  fortunes  of 
its  noble,  but  often  turbulent  inmates,  ex- 
pressed this  term,  "Magnificence  of  feudal 
times." 


Of  the  many  prominent  fam- 
j     ERYING     ilies  in  America  none  can  claim 

a  more  honorable  lineage.  They 
trace  their  ancestry  to  the  Celts,  who  at  an 
(early  date  settled  on  the  east  coast  of  Erin 
and  the  west  hills  and  islands  of  Albyn.  The 
word  was  originally  written  Erevine,  meaning 
a  stout,  westland  man,  and  is  derived  from 
jthe  Celtic-Scythic  words,  Erin-vine,  or  fein, 
Erin  meaning  west,  and  the  early  name  for 
Ireland,  the  westland,  and  vine  or  fein,  a 
strong  and  resolute  man.  The  name  is  vari- 
ously written :  Erevine,  Erwine,  Ervine,  Er- 
ving, de  Irvin,  Irvine  and  Irving.  One  of  the 
first  of  the  name  was  Crine  Erevine,  who  was 
Abthaine  of  Dull  and  senechal  and  collector 
of  "all  the  King's  rent  in  the  western  isles." 
He  married  the  Princess  Beatrix,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  Malcolm  II.  Their  son  became  Dun- 
lean  I.  of  Scotland.  Descendants  of  Crine 
Erevine  located  in  Bonshaw,  where  about  12Q6 
Robert  the  Bruce  found  an  asylum  in  the 
castle,  when  a  fugitive  from  Edward  Long- 
shanks.  Here  he  was  concealed  for  some 
time.  Sir  William  Irvine  (de  Irvine),  a  son 
of  the  owner  of  the  castle,  became  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  cause  of  Robert  the  Bruce. 
He  was  appointed  his  squire  and  armor  bearer 
and  accompanied  his  royal  master  in  his  vari- 
ous wanderings.  He  shared  in  his  many  nar- 
row escapes  and  took  part  in  his  many  excit- 
ing encounters  and  battles,  culminating  in  the 
battle  of  Bannockburn  in  1306,  which  resulted 
in  victory  for  the  heroic  Bruce.  In  1323 
Robert  the  Bruce  awarded  him  for  his  ser- 
vices and  fidelity  in  his  support  the  forest  of 
Drum  in  Aberdeenshire,  originally  the  Royal 
forest,  and  one  of  the  hunting  seats  of  the 
Kings  of  Scotland ;  also  his  coat-of-arms. 
which  he  wore  during  the  time  he  was  con- 
cealed in  the  Bonshaw  castle.  William  Ir- 
vine was  also  knighted  by  Robert  the  Bruce, 
who  gave  him  for  his  coat-of-arms :  Three 
holly    leaves    branded    together    on    a    shield 


arant;  also  his  own  motto,  sub  sole  sub  umbra 
virens.  A  direct  descendant  of  Sir  William 
Irvine  located  in  the  Orkneys,  and  from  there 
descendants  of  the  family  went  to  Stromness, 
where  John  Irving,  father  of  the  progenitor 
of  the   family  in  America,  was  born. 

(I)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (1)  Irving,  born 
in  the  island  of  Shapinsha  in  the  Orkneys,  in 
1693,  came  to  America  about  1700  and  located 
in  Boston,  where  he  made  his  home  until  his 
death,  August  30,  1786.  He  was  buried  in 
the  Granary  cemetery  on  Tremont  Street,  after 
coming  to  this  country  he  changed  the  spell- 
ing of  his  name  from  Irving  to  Erving.  At 
an  early  age  he  began  a  mercantile  business, 
in  which  avocation  he  gained  distinction,  be- 
coming one  of  the  most  prosperous  and  best 
known  merchants  in  the  colonies.  He  took 
an  active  interest  in  the  civic  and  business 
affairs  of  Boston,  serving  for  twenty  years 
as  a  member  of  the  council  of  Massachusetts. 
He  also  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  educational 
system  of  Boston.  His  portrait  painted  by 
Copley  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  great- 
great-grandson,  John  Erving,  of  New  York 
City.  He  was  married  in  Boston,  December 
1,  1725,  to  Abigail,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Philips.  She  died  June  20,  1759,  and 
was  buried  in  King's  Chapel,  Boston.  Chil- 
dren: 1.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  George, 
graduated  from  Harvard  University  in  1757; 
married  (first)  Lucy  Winslow,  (second)  Mary 
Mcintosh  Royall ;  he  died  in  London,  Eng- 
land, January  16,  1806;  his  son,  George  Wil- 
liam, became  American  Consul  at  London  and 
minister  to  Denmark  and  Spain.  3.  Abigail, 
born  May  16,  1729,  died  young.  4.  Mary, 
married  Governor  Scott,  of  the  island  of  St. 
Christopher.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  September  14, 
1731,  died  May  5,  1803;  married  Governor 
James  Bowdoin.  6.  Abigail,  born  September 
17,  1733.  7.  William,  born  September  8,  1734, 
died  in  Jamaica  Plains,  Massachusetts,  May 
27,  1791 ;  graduated  from  Harvard  University 
in  1753;  he  served  as  major  in  the  British 
army  and  took  part  in  General  Wolfe's  cam- 
paign against  Quebec ;  at  the  commencement 
of  the  revolutionary  war  he  resigned  from  the 
army ;  the  British  government,  in  recognition 
of  his  services,  gave  him  a  grant  of  land  in 
Coos  county.  New  Hampshire,  which  for 
many  years  was  known  as  the  Erving  loca- 
tion ;  he  bequeathed  one  thousand  pounds  to 


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Harvard  University  to  found  the  Erving  Pro- 
fessorship of  Chemistry.  8.  James,  burn  April 
14,  1736.  9.  Sarah,  horn  June  8,  1737;  mar- 
ried Brigadier-General  Waldo.  10.  Ann,  born 
January  jo,  1740;  married  Duncan  Stewart. 
(Ill  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and  Abi- 
gail (Philips)  Erving,  was  burn  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  January  26,  1727,  died  in 
Bath,  England.  July  22.  1816,  and  was  buried 
in  VValcot  Parish  churchyard  (St.  Swithins), 
Bath,  lie  attended  the  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  in  1747  graduated  from  Harvard 
University  with  the  degree  of  A.B.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  civic  affairs  of  his 
native  city  and  the  Massachusetts  colony.  In 
171  id  he  was  one  of  the  fifty-eight  who  signed 
the  "Boston  Memorial,"  thus  being  one  of  the 
first  in  America  to  oppose  the  officers  of  the 
Crown;  in  1774  he  was  an  addresser  of  Hut- 
chinson and  in  the  same  year  was  appointed  a 
mandamus  councillor.  In  1776  he  tied  to  Hal- 
ifax, ami  from  there  proceeded  to  England. 
In  177S  be  was  proscribed  and  banished  from 
America;  in  1770  his  property  was  confiscated 
under  the  Conspiracy  Act.  He  married, 
April  iS,  1754,  Maria  Catharina,  youngest 
daughter  of  William  Shirley,  governor  of 
Massachusetts  Bay,  and  commander-in-chief 
of  the  British  forces  in  North  America.  She 
flied  March  12,  1816,  aged  eighty-seven  years, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Walcot  Parish  church 
yard.  Children:  1.  Maria  Catharina,  christened 
August  17,  1755.  2.  Prances,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 24,  1756.  3.  John,  mentioned  below. 
4.  William,  born  in  1758,  died  November  14, 
1772.  5.  Shirley,  christened  November  23, 
1 7_S< ).     6.  Abigail,  born  April  20,   1700. 

(III)  Jolm  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  and  Maria 
Cithanna  (Shirk1/)  Erving  wis  christened 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  November  20,  1757, 
died  there  about  1847.  He  received  a  liberal 
education,  and  for  many  years  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile business  in  his  native  city.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  civic  and  social  af- 
fairs of  Boston.  He  married,  September  24, 
1785,  Ann  (Nancy),  daughter  of  William 
Sheaffe,  collector  of  the  port  of  Boston,  and 
sister  of  General  Sir  Robert  Hale  Sheaffe, 
Baronet.  Children:  I.  John,  mentioned  below. 
2.  William,  born  in  1790,  died  June  7,  1791. 
3  Prances  Anne,  died  in  Waltham,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  12,  1880. 

(IV)  Colonel    John    (5)    Erving,    son    of 


John  (4)  and  Ann  (Sheaffe)  Erving,  wa 
burn  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1789,  diei 
in  New  York  City,  October  26,  1862.  He  at 
tended  the  schools  of  his  native  city.  On  Jan 
nary  9,  1809,  he  was  appointed  second  lieu 
tenant  of  the  FInited  States  army.  He  the: 
for  two  years  at  the  National  Academ 
at  West  Point.  He  was  promoted  first  lieu 
tenant,  August  16,  1812,  and  from  April  t 
1813,  to  June  15,  1815,  during  the  war  o 
1812,  served  as  assistant  adjutant-genera 
with  the  rank  of  major.  Pie  was  retained  a 
first  lieutenant  artillery  corps,  May  17,  181; 
and  from  March,  1817,  to  April,  1818,  wa 
battalion  adjutant.  On  April  25,  1818,  h 
was  promoted  captain  and  transferred  to  th 
Fourth  Artillery  ;  was  brevetted  major,  Apr 
28,  1828,  for  "ten  years  of  faithful  servic 
in  one  grade."  He  was  commissioned  majoi 
June  1,  1821,  and  assigned  to  the  Third  Artr 
lery,  and  on  December  2,  1843,  was  trans 
ferred  to  the  Second  Artillery.  He  performe 
gallant  service  in  the  Seminole  and  Gree 
wars  in  Florida.  He  was  commissioned  liet 
tenant-colonel,  August  16,  1846,  and  serve 
with  distinction  during  the  Mexican  war.  O 
October  5,  1837,  he  was  promoted  colonel  an 
transferred  to  the  First  Artillery.  He  wa 
retired  from  active  service  because  of  failin 
health,  October  26,  1861. 

Pie  married,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvani; 
December  6,  1831,  Emily  Sophia,  daughtt 
of  Thomas  Pangdon-Elwyn,  of  Portsmoutl 
New  Hampshire,  born  March  12,  1802,  die 
March  13,  1878.  Children:  1.  John,  mentione 
below.  2.  Pangdon,  born  November  20,  183- 
died  May  20,  1862;  married,  in  Baltimor 
Maryland,  December  18,  i860,  Sophia  Claj 
ham,  daughter  of  Josiah  Pennington. 
Elwyn,  born  June,  1839,  died  November  I 
1867;  married,  in  Baltimore,  April,  186 
Pydia  Hollingsworth,  daughter  of  Captai 
Adams,  United  States  navy.  Mrs.  Ervin 
was  a  granddaughter  of  John  Pangdon,  bor 
in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  June  2 
1 741.  He  became  one  of  the  most  prominei 
citizens  of  the  state,  serving  as  delegate  1 
the  continental  congress,  1775-76  and  178^ 
and  was  for  several  years  a  member  of  tf 
li  use  of  representatives,  being  speaker  of  tr 
house,  1776-82,  1804-05.  He  was  presidei 
of  New  Hampshire  in  1785,  and  in  1787  wi 
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tion.  He  was  governor  of  the  state  in  1788, 
1805-09-10-11,  and  served  as  United  States 
senator  from  New  Hampshire,  March  4,  1789, 
to  March  3,  1801,  being  for  some  time  presi- 
dent of  that  body.  He  declined  the  appoint- 
ment of  secretary  of  the  navy  in  181 1.  In 
1812  he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for  vice- 
president  of  the  United  States.  He  died  in 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  September  18, 
i8iq.  Governor  Langdon  married,  February 
3,  1776,  Elizabeth  Sherburne,  and  had  one 
child,  Elizabeth,  born  December  4,  1777.  She 
married,  July  16,  1797,  Thomas  Ehvyn,  and 
had  nine  children.  A  daughter.  Emily  Sophia 
Langdon-Elwyn,  married  Colonel  John  Er- 
ving, United  States  Army,  mentioned  above. 
(V)  John  (6),  son  of  Colonel  John  (5) 
and  Emily  Sophia  (Langdon-Elwyn)  Erving, 
iwas  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  July 
6,  1833.  After  a  five  years'  course  of  study 
at  the  Brothers  Peugnet  School  in  New  York 
City,  he  entered  the  sophomore  'class  of  Har- 
vard University  in  1850,  and  graduated  in 
1853  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
In  1858  his  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  master  of  arts.  He  entered  the 
Harvard  University  Law  School  in  1853  and 
graduated  in  1855  vvith  the  degree  of  LL.B 
In  1856  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
York  City,  but  for  many  years  has  been  re- 
tired from  active  practice.  He  joined  the 
Seventh  Regiment  New  York  National  Guard, 
in  i860,  and  was  honorably  discharged  in 
1868.  In  1861  and  1863  he  served  with  his 
regiment  in  the  war.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Union  League  and  Harvard  clubs,  and  a 
charter  member  of  the  New  York  Bar  As- 
sociation. Mr.  Erving  married,  April  22, 
1862,  Cornelia,  second  daughter  of  William 
Paterson  Van  Rensselaer,  son  of  Stephen  Van 
Rensselaer,  of  Albany,  the  last  Patroon  (see 
Van  Rensselaer  V).  She  was  born  Septem- 
|er  22,  1841.     Children:  1.  Susan  Van  Rens- 

ilaer,  born  May  11,  1863,  died  July  1,  1912 
.    Cornelia   Van   Rennsselaer,  born   April   6, 

-^i>5  :  married  (first)  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  June 

r,  1895;  children:  John  V.  L.,  Jr.,  born  June 
I  1896,  died  May  17,  1897;  Erving,  born  Oc- 
Pober  26,   1897;  Hendrik,  born  December  28, 

)oo;  she  married  (second)  April  6,  1908, 
-.  amilton  L.  Hoppin.  3.  John  Langdon,  men- 
;  oned  below.    4.  Emily  Elwyn,  born  June  29, 

368;  married  Henry  Woodward  Cooper,  Jan- 


uary 22,  1895;  ne  died  April  30,  1912;  chil- 
dren: Cornelia  Van  Rensselaer,  born  Febru- 
ary 6,  1896,  died  July  20,  1899;  Lamberton, 
born  February  16,  1900;  John  Erving,  born 
September  30,  1905.  5.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born 
May  4,  1870;  married,  April  22,  1896,  James 
Gore  King;  children:  James  Gore,  Jr.,  born 
May  25,  1898.  Eleanor  Erving,  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1900;  Edward  Ramsay,  born  May  20, 
1905,  died  October  21,  1907;  Cornelia  Van 
Rensselaer,  born  February  7,  191 1.  6.  Wil- 
liam Van  Rensselaer,  born  November  15,  1871 ; 
is  a  lawyer  residing  in  Albany,  where  he  is 
a  representative  of  the  estate  of  his  grand- 
father, the  late  William  Paterson  Van  Rens- 
selaer; Mr.  Erving  was  municipal  civil  ser- 
vice commissioner  for  ten  years,  and  is  now 
commissioner  of  public  safety  in  Albany.  7. 
Katharine  Van  Rensselaer,  born  November 
K).  1873.  8.  Eleanor  Cecilia,  born  September 
20,  1875.  9.  Frances  Shirley,  born  Novem- 
ber 7,  1877,  died  September  29,  1878.  10. 
Walter  Shirley,  born  January  3,  1880.  11. 
Justine  Bayard,  born  December  22,  1881.  12 
Philip  Livingston,  born  March  12,  1884,  died 
May  11,  1885. 

(VI)  John  Langdon,  son  of  John  (6)  and 
Cornelia  (Van  Rensselaer)  Erving,  was  born 
on  Manising  Island,  Rye,  New  York,  July 
31,  1866.  He  was  educated  in  private  schools 
of  New  York  City,  and  for  twenty  years  was 
ci  nnected  with  the  Mexican  Cable  Company. 
In  January,  1885,  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth 
Company,  Seventh  Regiment  New  York  Na- 
tional Guard.  In  August,  1887,  he  was  com- 
missioned first  lieutenant  in  the  Twelfth  Regi- 
ment. In  March.  1805,  he  enlisted  in  Troop 
A,  Second  Army  Corps,  United  States  Army, 
and  served  with  his  troop  in  the  campaign  in 
Porto  Rico  during  the  Spanish-American  war 
in  1898,  and  in  the  fall  of  this  year  was  hon- 
orably discharged.  He  married,  November  3, 
1004,  Alice  Hanchet  Rutherford.  Children: 
1.  Alice  Rutherford,  born  May  24,  1906.  2. 
Cornelia  Van  Rensselaer,  born  November  23, 
1907.  3.  John  Langdon,  Jr.,  born  August  1, 
1909-  

The     surnames     Dickey,     Dick 
DICKEY     and  the  like  are  manifestly  de- 
rived from  the  personal  or  bap- 
tismal name  Richard.     Richard  besides  being 
itself  a  surname,  like  a  number  of  other  per- 


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sonal  names  having  the  dual  capacity,  has 
given  rise  to  other  surnames.  Among  the 
surnames  that  have  been  derived  from  Rich- 
ard and  its  modifications  in  almost  every 
country  of  Europe,  are  Richards,  Richardson, 
MacRichard,  Rich,  Riche,  Ritchie,  Riches, 
Rick,  Dick,  Hitchin,  Dix,  Dickinson  and  so  on. 
These  names  arc  common,  some  of  them  to 
every  country  in  Europe,  though  Dickey  is 
confined  for  the  most  part  to  England  and 
Ireland.  It  is  in  some  cases  a  rendering  from 
the  (  iaelic  term,  MacRiocard,  which  is  also 
in  many  cases  rendered  as  Richardson.  The 
Dickey  family  or  rather  families  bearing  the 
name  of  Dickey  were  known  in  America  in 
the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

(I)  Robert  Dickey,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Dickey  family,  was  born  in  Ireland,  and 
died  in  New  York  City.  He  came  from  Ire- 
land in  [798  and  was  a  shipping  merchant  in 
Xew  York,  lie  married  Anne  Brown.  Chil- 
dren :  I  lugh  T.,  Anne,  Elizabeth,  Jane,  George, 
Robert,  John,  Charles  Denston,  mentioned  be- 
low ;   Mary. 

( II )  Charles  Denston,  son  of  Robert  and 
Anne  (Brown)  Dickey,  was  born  October  8, 
1818,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  at  Islip, 
Dong  Island,  in  1897.  He  received  his  pre- 
liminary education  in  the  schools  of  the  city, 
and  in  1835  entered  the  office  of  Brown 
Brothers  &  Company,  remaining  with  the  firm 
till  his  death  in  1897.  During  this  period  he 
represented  the  house  at  various  times  in  Sa- 
vannah. New  Orleans  and  Mobile,  and  became 
a  partner  in  1859.  In  1850  he  married,  at 
Greensboro,  Alabama,  Mary,  born  October  28, 
1825.  daughter  of  Dr.  John  and  Sophia 
(Graham)  Witherspoon  Sophia  (Graham) 
Witherspoon,  mother  of  Mary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey,  and  grandmother  of  Charles  Denston 
(2)  Dickey,  was  a  daughter  of  Governor  Jo- 
seph Graham,  of  North  Carolina.  Children 
of  Charles  Denston  and  Mary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey:  Eliza  Goldthwaite,  born  in  Mobile. 
Alabama,  1853;  Charles  Denston,  mentioned 
below  ;  Sophia  Witherspoon,  New  York,  1864  ; 
Mary  Witherspoon,  New  York,  1866. 

(III)  Charles  Denston  (2),  son  of  Charles 
Denston  (1)  and  Mary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey,  was  born  at  Mobile,  Alabama,  May 
8,  i860.  He  was  educated  in  St.  Paul's 
Si  hi  ol.  Concord.  New  Hampshire,  and  at  Har- 
vard  University,   graduating   in   the   class   of 


1882.  After  leaving  college  he  entered  tl 
office  of  Brown  Brothers  &  Company.  J 
[885  he  became  their  representative  in  I'h 
adelphia,  where  he  lived  for  a  period  of  abo 
two  years,  afterwards  returning  to  New  Y01 
as  a  partner  in  the  New  York  house.  M 
Dickey  is  a  director  of  the  Commercial  Tru 
Company  of  New  Jersey,  trustee  of  the  Gree: 
vvich  Savings  Bank,  trustee  of  the  Londc 
Assurance  Corporation,  director  of  the  Me 
chants'  National  Bank  of  the  City  of  Ne 
York,  director  of  the  Niagara  Falls  Pow< 
Company,  United  States  trustee  of  the  Nort! 
era  Assurance  Company,  Limited,  of  Londo 
trustee  of  the  <  >cean  Accident  and  Guaranty 
( Corporation,  and  director  of  the  United  Stat' 
Mortgage  and  Trust  Company.  Mr.  Dickc 
also  belongs  to  a  number  of  leading  clubs. 

lie  married,  in  New  York  City,  March  I 
1S93,  Louise,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Ma 
garet  (Johnson)  Whitney,  of  New  Have 
Children:  Charles  Denston  (3),  born  Deceti 
ber  3,  1893;  Stephen  Whitney,  January 
1897;  Lawrence  Witherspoon,  April  12,  190 


Originally  spelled  Rossete 
ROSSITER  this  name  is  of  undoubtt 
Saxon  or  Norman  origin,  ar 
probably  was  carried  into  England  with  tl 
conquering  army  of  William  the  Norman, 
is  still  a  conspicuous  one  in  England,  as  we 
as  in  the  United  States,  and  has  borne  i 
part  in  developing  this  country  in  the  variot 
branches  of  progress. 

( I )  Sir  Edward  Rossiter,  the  founder  ( 
the  family  in  the  United  States,  came  from 
good  substantial  family  of  the  English  gentr 
and  owned  a  large  estate  in  the  county  ( 
Somerset,  England.  He  was  commissione 
in  London  in  1629  as  one  of  the  assistants  1 
Governor  Winthrop,  and  embarked  for  tl 
colonies  from  Plymouth,  England,  March  2< 
1630,  in  the  ship  "Mary  and  John,"  con 
manded  by  Captain  Syuet,  with  one  hundre 
and  forty  persons  abroad.  Their  origin; 
destination  was  the  Charles  river,  but  the  ca] 
tain  decided  to  land  them  at  Dorchester  Necl 
at  the  end  of  a  two  months'  voyage.  In  tl 
histories  of  the  colonies  Edward  is  spoken  c 
as  a  "godly  man  of  good  repute,''  who  le 
England  for  the  sake  of  religion.  He  lived  t 
fill  his  position  but  a  few  months  after  h 
arrival  in  this  country,  and  died  October  2, 


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1630.  There  is  no  mention  of  Sir  Edward's 
wife,  and  it  is  supposed  that  she  had  previ- 
ously died. 

(II)  Dr.  Brayard  Rossiter,  son  of  Sir  Ed- 
ward Rossiter,  was  the  only  member  of  his 
family  who  came  with  him.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  (Alsop)  Ros- 
siter, whom  he  had  married  in  England.  Dr. 
Rossiter  is  spoken  of  in  history  as  a  finely 
educated  man  from  the  best  schools  in  Eng- 
land. He  was  one  of  the  principal  men  who 
commenced  the  settlement  of  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, in  1636,  where  he  was  a  magistrate 
for  eighteen  years,  and  became  widely  known 
as  a  physician.  In  1652  he  removed  to  Guil- 
ford, Connecticut.  On  March  11,  1662,  he 
performed  the  first  post-mortem  examination 
in  the  Connecticut  colony,  and  history  has  it 
that  it  was  the  first  autopsy  of  which  there 
is  any  record  in  New  England,  antedating  by 
a  dozen  years  the  one  in  Boston,  in  1674,  an 
account  of  which  is  given  by  Dr.  Greene  in 
his  "History  of  Medicine."  Dr.  Rossiter  died 
in  Guilford,  September  30,  1672.  He  had  five 
sons  and  five  daughters,  but  the  only  son  who 
had  descendants  was  Josiah. 

(III)  Josiah,  son  of  Dr.  Brayard  and  Eliza- 
beth (Alsop)  Rossiter,  was  born  in  1646,  in 
Windsor,  died  January  31,  1716,  in  Guilford, 
whither  he  had  removed  with  his  father  when 
a  boy.  He  was  one  of  the  twelve  patentees 
oi  the  town  of  Guilford  in  1685,  and  was  a 
very  prominent  man  in  that  community,  fill- 
ing many  official  positions.  He  represented 
the  town  in  the  state  legislature  nine  times, 
the  last  year  being  1700.  He  was  town  clerk 
from  1695  to  1706,  and  from  1707  to  1716, 
the  time  of  his  death.  In  1676  he  was  ensign 
of  the  local  militia  company;  he  served  as 
county  and  probate  judge  of  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  and  was  for  ten  years  one  of  the 
assistants  of  the  governor,  and  was  also  the 
first  naval  officer  of  the  port  of  Guilford.    He 

larried,  in  1676,  Sarah,  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
amuel  Sherman,  of  Stamford  and  Wood- 
ury,  Connecticut,  from  whose  grandfather 
descended  Roger  Sherman,  one  of  the  signers 
)f  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  General 
William  Tecumseh  Sherman  and  Senator  John 
herman.  Children  of  Josiah  Rossiter:  Sarah, 
vho  died  young;  Elizabeth,  born  in  April, 
679;  Josiah  (2),  born  March  31,  1680; 
'■amuel,  died  young;  Timothy,  born  June  5, 


1683;  John  born  October  13,  1684;  Samuel, 
born  February  z8,  1686;  David,  born  April 
17,  1687;  Jonathan,  born  April  3,  1688; 
Nathaniel,  of  whom  further;  Sarah,  born  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1691 ;  Patience,  born  April  6,  1692; 
Johanna,  born  April  23,  1693. 

(IV)  Ensign  Nathaniel  Rossiter,  eighth  son 
of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Sherman)  Rossiter,  was 
born  November  10,  1689,  in  Guilford,  where 
he  died  October  4,  1751.  He  resided  in  his 
native  town,  and  was  a  joiner  by  occupation. 
In  1716  his  property  was  valued  for  taxation 
at  fifty-eight  pounds,  nineteen  shillings  and  six 
pence.  He  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Nathaniel  Stone.  She  died  April  20, 
1776,  having  survived  her  husband  about  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  Children :  Nathaniel 
(2),  born  March  23,  1716;  Benjamin,  born 
September  25,  1718;  Sarah,  born  June  1,  1720; 
Noah,  born  April  15,  1725,  died  February, 
1757 :  David,  born  in  October,  1728,  died  in 
September,    1731  ;  Nathan,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Nathan,  youngest  child  of  Ensign 
Nathaniel  and  Anna  (Stone)  Rossiter,  was 
born  October  31,  1730,  in  Guilford,  died  in 
1788,  in  Richmond,  Berkshire  county,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  settled  in  the  latter  town  in 
■T/75,  locating  in  the  western  part,  a  little  over 
one  mile  west  of  the  village  of  Richmond,  at 
the  intersection  of  two  roads.  He  married, 
June  14,  1755,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Timothy 
and  Bathsheba  (Stone)  Baldwin,  of  North 
Guilford,  born  July  24,  1735,  in  that  town. 
Children:  Nathan  (2),  of  whom  further; 
Noah,  born  June  5.  1759,  resided  on  the 
paternal  homestead ;  Abraham,  died  young ; 
Sarah,  born  August  28,  1763;  Abraham,  born 
October  20,  1765.  resided  on  the  homestead; 
Samuel,  born  February  26,  1768;  Benjamin, 
born  November  23,  1771,  lived  in  New  York; 
Rebecca,  born  June  20,  1774. 

(VI)  Nathan  (2),  eldest  child  of  Nathan 
(1)  and  Sarah  (Baldwin)  Rossiter,  was  born 
in  1756,  in  Guilford.  He  settled  in  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  town  of  Williamstown,  Berk- 
shire county.  New  York,  where  he  was  a 
prominent  citizen,  and  died  in  1829.  His 
name  appears  frequently  as  a  witness  to  deeds 
and  other  legal  documents.  He  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Timothy  and  Hannah  (Wad- 
hams)  Tuttle,  of  Goshen,  Connecticut,  born 
there  August  10,  1758.  Children :  Dr.  David, 
born    in    February,    1783,    died    in    February, 


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1870;  Timothy  Tuttle,  of  whom  further; 
Louis  Nathan,  born  in  1788;  Melissa,  burn  in 
1790,  died  in  June,  185');  Edward. 

(VII)  Timothy  Tuttle,  second  son  of  Na- 
than (2)  and  Hannah  (  Tuttle  )  Rossiter,  was 
born  in  1785,  probably  in  Williamstown, 
though  his  birth  is  not  there  recorded,  lie 
died  in  that  town,  July  29,  1809,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-four  years  He  married  Cynthia 
Powers.  She  married  (second)  intentions  re- 
corded December  20,  1 8 1 3 ,  in  Williamstown, 
Charles  Bulkeley,  of  Granville,  Massachusetts, 
Sou  of  Timothy  Tuttle  and  Cynthia  (  1'owers) 
Rossiter;  Lucius  Tuttle,  of  whom  further. 

(VIII)  Lucius  Tuttle,  only  son  of  Timothy 
Tuttle  and  Cynthia  (Lowers)  Rossiter,  was 
born  October  2,  1809,  in  Williamstown. 
though  not  recorded  there,  and  died  August 
24.  1871),  in  Guilford,  Connecticut.  In  1843 
he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  was 
a  dry-goods  merchant  until  185 — ,  when  he 
retired  and  settled  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
lie  always  maintained  a  summer  home  in 
Guilford.  Owing  to  business  reverses  in  1865 
he  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States  in 
the  customs  department  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  continued  ten  years.  Following  this 
he  became  secretary  of  the  York  County  Iron 
Company,  of  York,  Pennsylvania,  but  did  not 
remove  his  residence  from  Brooklyn.  He 
continued  in  this  capacity  until  a  short  time 
before  his  death,  being  prevented  by  illness 
in  lii-  last  years  from  further  activity.  He 
was  a  regular  attendant  of  the  Lafayette  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  Church,  of  Brooklyn,  and  a 
steadfast  supporter  of  Republican  principles, 
but  not  an  active  politician.  He  married, 
August  j8,  1843,  at  Troy.  New  York,  Mary 
Wickes,  born  January  30,  1817,  at  Jamaica, 
Long  Island,  died  January  4.  I < m >7" .  at  the 
home  of  her  daughter  in  New  York  City, 
She  was  a  descendant  of  General  Van  Wyck 
Wickes.  of  Jamaica.  Children  of  Lucius  Tut- 
tle Rossiter  and  wife:  1.  Edward  Van  Wyck, 
of  whom  further.  2.  Walter  King,  born 
May  25,  1846,  died  October  1,  1910;  married, 
April  2(1,  1871,  Emilie  K.  Mayo,  daughter  of 
Joshua  C.  Mayo.  Children:  i.  Marie  Louise 
born  February  16,  1872.  ii.  Ethel  Mayo,  born 
March  28,  1874,  married  Peter  Duncan  Mc- 
Naughton  ;  child,  Walter,  iii.  Helen  Wickes, 
born  March  14,  1876.  3.  William  Wickes.  of 
whom    further.     4.    Mary   Wickes,   born   Au- 


gust [9,  1849,  Ted  January,  1852.  5.  Frai 
Powers,  born  August  19,  1852.  6.  Anna,  bo 
October  7,  1853,  died  February,  1856. 
Elizabeth,  born  December  12,  1854.  8.  Luci 
Tuttle,  born  September  4,  1856.  9.  Arth 
Lawrence,  born  October  18,  1857,  died 
August,   1858.     10.  Clinton  Lawrence. 

(IX)  Edward  Van  Wyck,  oldest  child 
Lucius  Tuttle  and  Mary  (Wickes)  Rossib 
was  b  rn  July  13,  1844,  in  St.  Louis,  Missou 
dud  December  10,  1910,  at  Flushing,  N< 
York.  He  was  educated  at  the  Collegiate  a 
Polytechnic  Institute,  of  Brooklyn,  and  up 
attaining  his  majority  became  a  clerk  in  t 
office  of  the  Hudson  River  Railroad  Compai 
where  he  continued  two  years.  For  the  si 
ceeding  seven  years  he  was  a  clerk  in  t 
treasurer's  office  of  the  same  company,  a 
from  1867  to  1877  was  cashier  of  the  coi 
pany.  From  1877  to  1901  he  was  treasui 
of  the  company,  and  after  1901  was  vice-pre 
dent  of  the  New  York  Central  &  Huds 
River  Railroad  Company,  and  from  1883 
1900  he  was  treasurer  of  the  same  compai 
After  November  9,  1900,  was  vice-president 
the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Railro 
Company,  and  since  January  3,  1905,  of  t 
Michigan  Central  Railroad  Company.  1 
was  a  vice-president  of  the  Cleveland,  C: 
cinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Co: 
pany,  and  an  officer  and  director  in  other  st 
sidiary  companies  of  the  New  York  Cent: 
\  tern.  He  was  a  vice-president  and  a  1 
rector  of  the  Lincoln  National  Bank  of  N< 
York ;  vice-president  and  trustee  of  the  L: 
coin  Safe  Deposit  Company;  trustee  of  t 
Bowery  Savings  Bank;  director  of  the  Quee 
Insurance  Company  of  America;  and  also 
many  coal  and  other  corporations.  He  was 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  N< 
York ;  New  England  Society  of  New  Y01 
and  of  the  Union  League  Club;  and  for  ma 
years  he  was  a  warden  of  St.  George's  Pi 
testant  Episcopal  Church,  of  Flushing.  1 
married,  at  Great  Neck,  Long  Island,  Ju 
[6,  [869,  Estelle  Hewlett,  born  1845,  daught 
1  f  Joseph  Lawrence  and  Mary  (Cromwe 
Hewlett,  of  Hewlett's  Point,  Great  Neck,  Lo 
Island.  Children:  1.  Edward  Lawrence, 
whom  further.  2.  Estelle  Hewlett,  born  C 
tober  <\  1872;  married,  November,  i8( 
Charles    Edward   Titus,   and    resides    in    N< 


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York  City;  children:  Arthur  Rossiter,  born 
November,  1899;  Charles  Edward,  March, 
1902.  3.  Arthur  Wickes,  of  whom  further. 
4.  Frank  Herriman,  born  March,  1878;  con- 
nected with  the  accounting  department  of  the 
New  York  Central  Railroad.  5.  Mary  Hew- 
lett, residing  in  New  York  City.  6.  Ernest 
Tuttle,  born  April,  1884;  graduated  from  a 
school  in  Pomf  ret,  Connecticut ;  unmarried ; 
resides  in  New  York  City. 

(X)  Edward  Lawrence,  eldest  child  of  Ed- 
ward Van  Wyck  and  Estelle  (Hewlett)  Ros- 
siter, was  born  August  14,  1870,  at  Great 
Neck,  Long  Island.  He  was  educated  in 
Flushing  Institute,  and  in  1887,  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years,  entered  business  as  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  New  York  Central  &  Hud- 
son River  Railroad  Company.  In  1900  he 
became  assistant  treasurer  of  the  same,  and 
in  November,  1902,  became  treasurer.  Since 
December,  1910,  he  has  been  a  director  of  the 
Lincoln  National  Bank  of  New  York;  is  a 
director  in  a  number  of  subsidiary  companies 
of  the  New  York  Central  railroad  system. 
For  two  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Seventh 
Regiment,  National  Guard  State  of  New 
York,  receiving  his  discharge  about  1897.  He 
is  a  member  of  Christ  (Protestant  Episcopal) 
Church,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  and  is 
identified  with  numerous  clubs,  including  the 
Union  League  of  New  York,  Transportation, 
Greenwich  Country,  and  Field  of  Greenwich. 
Politically  he  is  an  Independent.  He  now 
resides  at  Greenwich,  Connecticut. 

Mr.  Rossister  married,  June  5,  1895,  in 
Brooklyn,  Ella  Fowler,  a  graduate  of  Packer 
Institute,  born  October  29,  1875,  daughter  of 
Henry  J.  and  Sarah  (Quimby)  Fowler,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  Children :  Lawrence 
Fowler,  born  March  23,  1896,  in  Brooklyn, 
now  a  member  of  the  class  of  1913,  at  the  Al- 
len-Stevenson School,  of  New  York  City ; 
Dorothy,  a  student  at  the  Ely  School  of  Green- 
wich. 

(X)  Arthur  Wickes.  second  son  of  Edward 
Van  Wyck  and  Estelle  (Hewlett)  Rossiter, 
was  born  October  8,  1874,  at  Flushing,  Long 
Island.  He  attended  the  Flushing  Institute 
and  Drisler's  private  school  of  New  York 
City.  In  1892,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  J.  W.  Davis  &  Com- 
pany, bankers  and  brokers  (then  located  at 
No.  66  Broadway,  but  now  at  No.  100  Broad- 


way), as  a  boy,  and  since  then  has  filled  by 
steady  advancement  every  position  in  the  busi- 
ness. In  1900  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm.  At  the  present  time  (1913)  he  is  one 
of  the  active  members  of  the  Stock  Exchange. 
He  holds  membership  in  the  Union  Club, 
Racquet  and  Tennis  Club,  Automobile  Club, 
the  Stock  Exchange  Lunch  Club,  the  Nassau 
Country  Club,  the  Piping  Rock  Country  Club, 
and  the  Oakland  Golf  Club.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  resides  at  Glen  Cove, 
Long  Island. 

He  married,  in  1906,  Alice  Riggs  Colgate, 
of  Flushing,  Long  Island,  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Henrietta  (Craig)  Colgate.  Children: 
Henrietta  Craig,  born  March  22,  1907;  Arthur 
Wickes,  Jr.,  born  March  30,  1908. 

(IX)  William  Wickes,  son  of  Lucius  Tuttle 
and  Mary  (Wickes)  Rossiter,  was  born  in 
Troy,  February  9,  1848,  and  died  in  Brook- 
lyn, April  27,  1897.  As  a  merchant  in  general 
produce  he  began  business  with  the  firm  of 
Wallace  &  Wickes ;  afterwards  the  company 
was  reorganized  under  the  name  of  Rossiter  & 
Skidmore,  and  Mr.  Rossiter  was  its  principal 
member  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
also  the  president  of  the  Terminal  Warehouse 
Company,  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  was  prominent  in  the  social  and 
club  life  of  Brooklyn,  serving  on  the  boards  of 
such  organizations  as  the  Hamilton  Club,  Chil- 
dren's Aid  Society,  etc.  He  married  (first) 
in  Brooklyn,  August  2,  1870,  Emma  L.,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Richmond,  who  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  in  1849,  and  died  October  27,,  1888; 
I  sec  nd)  Helen,  daughter  of  James  Hendrick, 
of  Albany,  New  York.  All  his  children  were 
by  the  first  wife.  Her  father,  Robert  Rich- 
mond, was  born  in  Scotland,  and  came  to 
America  at  the  age"  of  twenty-one,  and  died  in 
1879.  Children:  Van  Wyck.  of  whom  further: 
Julie,  born  January  21,  1875.  married,  April 
29,  1896,  John  J.  Hinchman ;  William  Wickes, 
born  November  13,  1877. 

(  X )  Van  Wyck,  son  of  William  Wickes 
and  Emma  L.  (Richmond)  Rossiter,  was  born 
in  Brooklyn,  May  12,  1871.  After  having  had 
a  thorough  preliminary  course  of  study  in  the 
Holbrook  School,  Ossinning,  he  completed  his 
education  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute,  of 
Brooklyn.  His  first  business  experience  was 
with   H.   A.   Rogers,  at   No.    19  John    Street. 


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New  York  City;  hut  this  position  he  was  after 
a  time  compelled  to  give  up  on  account  of  ill 
health,  and  going  out  to  California  for  re- 
cuperation, he  remained  for  a  year.  In  1893 
he  organized  the  firm  of  Rossiter.  McGovern 
&  Company,  the  company  being  incorporated 
in  1899,  ami  Mr,  Rossiter  serving  as  its  presi- 
dent until  he  retired  from  the  business.  He 
was  also  president  of  the  Queensboro  Electric 
Light  &  Power  Company,  of  the  borough  of 
Queens,  New  York  City;  of  the  Citizens'  Elec- 
tric Lighting  Company,  of  Far  Rockaway, 
Long  Island,  New  York;  of  the  Liberty  Light 
&  Lower  Company,  of  Liberty,  Sullivan 
county.  New  York,  and  a  director  of  many 
other  companies.  He  organized  and  was  for 
six  years  the  president  of  the  Rockland  County 
Trust  Company:  is  president  of  the  Gregory 
&  Sherman  G  mpany,  and  of  the  Braeburn 
Association,  all  three  of  these  organizations 
being  of  Nyack,  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
Mr.  Rossiter  making  his  home  at  Upper 
Nyack.  He  is  president  of  the  Nyack 
Country  Club,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League  Club,  of  New  York  City.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican,  and  he  has  served  as 
village  trustee  of  Upper  Nyack. 

Mr.  Rossiter  married,  in  California,  Octo- 
ber 10,  1895,  Mabel,  daughter  of  Lewis  Cass 
and  Anna  L.  (Davis)  Fuller,  who  was  born 
in  Portland,  Oregon.  Her  father  was  a  well- 
known  banker  of  that  state.  Children:  Rich- 
mond, born  November  8,  1896;  Ruth  Mabel, 
born  September  29.  1897;  Van  Wyck,  born 
May  26.  1900;  Margaret,  born  April  22.  1901  ; 
Elizabeth,  born  July  23,  191 1. 


This  old  Dutch  family  has  been  con- 
SIP  tinuously  located  in  New  Jersey  for 
two  and  a  half  centuries,  and  seven 
generations  have  been  born  in  one  house,  lo- 
cated at  the  south  corner  of  Bergen  Avenue 
and  Newkirk  Street  in  Jersey  City.  This 
house  was  built  by  Adraen  Hendrickse  Sip 
about  1664,  and  is  still  occupied  by  his  lineal 
descendant,  who  was  born  there. 

(I)  Adraen  Hendrickse  Sip.  of  Breda,  Hol- 
land, came  to  America  in  1641,  and  joined  the 
church  in  Bergen,  November  13,  1666.  The 
house  which  he  built  there  in  1664  is  still 
standing  in  almost  its  original  form.  The 
homes  of  that  period  were  usually  one-story 


structures  built  of  stone  or  wood  ami  some- 
times of  both,  and  were  comfortable  and 
hospitable  in  appearance.  The  steep  roof 
curved  slightly  toward  the  lower  part  and  often 
extended  beyond  the  walls  to  form  a  piazza, 
the  edge  being  supported  by  pillars.  There 
were  spacious  rooms  on  either  side  of  a  wide 
hall  which  ran  through  the  middle  of  the  house, 
and  the  attic  contained  several  sleeping  apart- 
ments, a  spinning  and  loom  room  and  a  store- 
roi  m.  A  very  fair  example  of  one  of  these 
is  the  Sip  homestead.  Adraen  H.  Sip  married 
(first)  February  4,  1656,  Grietje  Warnants 
Van  Schonevelt,  and  (second)  Geertje  Aur- 
ians,  a  widow,  who  survived  him  and  died  May 
17,  1 691.  Children:  Henricus,  Jan  Arianse, 
Antje,  became  the  wife  of  Symon  Jacobse 
Van  Winkle;  Maritje,  married  Sibi  Opdyke. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  purchasers  on 
January  30,  1658,  of  the  Peninsula  between 
the  Hudson  and  Hackensack  rivers,  south 
from  Weehawken  to  Bergen  Point,  from  the 
Indians,  which  was  finally  granted  to  the  in- 
habitants of  Bergen  in  the  year  1661. 

(II)  Jan  Arianse,  second  son  of  Adraen 
Hendrickse  and  Grietje  Warnants  (Van 
Schonevelt)  Sip,  was  born  May  24,  1662,  died 
August  12,  1729.  He  was  an  important  and 
influential  person  in  the  town  of  Bergen.  He 
was  lieutenant  in  the  Bergen  militia  under 
Captain  John  Pinhorne  from  1703  to  171 1, 
and  later  captain.  He  married,  April  22,  1683, 
Johanna  Van  Vorst.  Children,  all  baptized  in 
New  York:  Arie,  born  October  25,  1684,  bap- 
tized November  it,  1684;  Hillegend.  bap- 
tized August  2^.  1687;  Ide,  twin  of  Hillegond, 
died  in  infancy;  Margaret.  August  17,  1690; 
Annetje,  February  22/1693;  ^e,  mentioned 
below:  Johannis,  born  May  10,  1698;  Abra- 
ham, April  11,  1704;  Lena,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 1,  1708. 

(III)  Ide,  son  of  Jan  Arianse  and  Johanna 
(Van  Vorst)  Sip,  was  born  September  3,  1695, 
in  Bergen,  and  died  February  26,  1702,  He 
was  commissioned  lieutenant  of  the  Sixth 
Company  of  the  Bergen  militia  under  captain 
Michael  C.  Vreeland,  March  13,  17^3,  and 
was  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  town.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  April  12,  1 7 1 5 .  at  Hackensack, 
Ariantje  Cornelisse  Cadmuys,  a  native  of 
Passaic,  and  (second)  June  9,  1725.  in  New 
York.  Antje  Van  Wagenen.  born  about  1704. 
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migse)  Van  Wagenen,  died  January  25,  1749. 
Children  of  second  marriage :  John,  Cornelius, 
Annetje,  Catalyntje,  born  August  5,  173 1  ;  Ar- 
riantje,  baptized  June  2,  1733;  Jannetje,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1735;  Garret,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Garret,  youngest  child  of  Ide  and 
Antje  (Van  Wagenen)  Sip,  was  baptized  Au- 
gust 21,  1740.  in  Bergen,  and  died  October 
4,  1775.  He  married  Jannetje  Merselis,  who 
survived  him  almost  fifty  years,  dying  October 
4.  1775.  Children:  Antje,  born  September  6, 
1764;  Peter,  mentioned  below;  Jenneke, 
March  12,  1770. 

(V)  Peter,  only  son  of  Garret  and  Jannetje 
(Merselis)  Sip.  was  born  August  18,  1767, 
in  Bergen,  and  died  May  1,  1852.  He  was  a 
jurist  of  the  finest  type,  being  judge  of  the 
Bergen  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  in  1840 
was  elected  county  judge  of  Hudson  county 
by  the  Republican  party,  of  which  he  was  an 
earnest  supporter.  He  was  the  founder  of 
the  New  Jersey  Railroad  &  Transportation 
Company;  Newark  Plank  Road  Company': 
Mechanics  Bank.  Newark ;  Jersey  City  &  Ber- 
gen railroad,  which  has  since  grown  to  enor- 
mous proportions  He  married,  November  1, 
1789,  Elizabeth  Vreeland,  who  died  March  1, 
1827.  Children:  Garret,  born  March  11.  1791  ; 
Marritje.  February  27,  1795 ;  Richard,  men- 
tioned below. 

(YF)  Richard,  seccnd  son  of  Peter  and  Eli- 
zabeth (Vreeland)  Sip,  was  born  August  31, 
1800.  in  Bergen,  and  died  April  10,  1865.  He 
was  engaged  in  looking  after  his  father's  es- 
tate, and  bv  his  good  judgment  and  foresight 
the  value  of  the  property  was  greatly  increased. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church  of  Bergen,  now  Jersey  City,  and  in 
politics  was  a  Republican.  He  married,  in 
Jersey  City,  September  =;.  1856,  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth Wayland,  born  July  31,  1818.  in  New 
York  City,  died  October  20,  1910,  daughter 
of  Letitia  Wayland,  born  in  Bath,  England. 
June  22,  1789,  died  July  12,  1864.  They  had 
one  son,  Richard  Garret,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Richard  Garret,  only  son  of  Richard 
and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Wayland)  Sip,  was 
born  July  2.  i860,  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  first  attended  private  schools  in  New 
York  City,  and  later  Professor  Anthon's 
Grammar  School,  where  he  remained  until  he 
was  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  entered 
the  School  of  Mines.     He  studied  Chemistry 


and  Mining  Engineering.  He  then  made  an 
extensive  tour  of  the  world  in  a  560-ton  bark, 
when  he  returned  to  Jersey  City  He  is  now- 
retired  and  is  living  in  the  old  homestead  built 
by  Adraen  Hendrickse  Sip  in  1664.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican.  Mr.  Sip  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York, 
president  of  the  Hudson  County  Holland  So- 
ciety, and  of  the  Alpha  Beta  Delta.  He  is  a 
charter  member  of  the  Carteret  Club  of  Jersey 
City,  Indian  Harbor  Yacht  Club,  Lake  Hopat- 
cong  Yacht  Club,  Manhattan  Bicycle  Club, 
New  York,  and  member  of  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 

Mr.  Sip  married,  December  31,  1889,  in 
Jersey  City,  Mary  Ella  Riker,  born  March 
26,  1863,  in  Jersey  City,  daughter  of  John 
Kidney  and  Martha  Ann  ( Van  Derlinder) 
Riker.  The  latter  was  born  December  16, 
1832,  and  died  November  9,  1908,  in  Jersey 
City.  John  K.  Riker  was  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business.  He  died  April  14,  1867.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Riker  had  children:  John  Romine,  born 
October,  1855;  Henry  H.,  December  3,  1857; 
Albert ;  Mary  Ella,  above  mentioned  as  the 
wife  of  Richard  Garret  Sip. 


Captain  John  Luther  was  born 
LUTHER     in   Shrewsbury.   England.     He 

set  sail  from  D:rset  county, 
England,  for  the  new  world,  landing  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  in  1635,  and  in  1637  was 
one  of  the  first  purchasers  and  settlers  of 
Swansea ;  his  ninety  acres  of  land  were  said 
to  have  been  purchased  from  the  Indians  for 
a  peck  of  white  beans.  It  is  quite  probable 
that  the  land  was  assigned  by  the  government 
and  the  peck  of  beans  merelv  quieted  any 
claim  made  bv  the  Indians.  He  sold  his  in- 
terests there  and  in  1642  became  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Gloucester ;  in  the  same  year 
he  was  made  governor  of  Rhode  Island.  He 
was  employed  by  the  merchants  of  Boston  as 
captain  of  a  vessel  to  go  to  Delaware  Bay  on 
a  trading  voyage,  and  while  there  was  killed 
by  the  Indians  in  1644.  Evidently  his  son  was 
captured  at  the  same  time,  for  on  May  2,  1646, 
the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  decreed 
that  the  wid  w  Luther  should  have  the  balance 
of  her  husband's  wages  according  to  the  cus- 
tom, after  allowing  the  merchants  what  they 
paid  for  the  redemption  of  her  son.    Children: 


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Samuel,  of  whom  further;  Hezekiah,  of  whom 
further,  and  James. 

(  II  )  Rev.  Samuel  Luther,  son  of  Captain 
John  Luther,  was  born  in  1636,  in  Taunton, 
and  died  December  20,  1716,  at  Kickemuit, 
Rhode  Island.  He  was  among  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Swansea,  Massachusetts,  in  1667,  and 
made  a  demand  upon  the  town  of  Taunton, 
October  19,  1672,  for  his  father's  purchase 
rights,  but  it  was  shown  that  his  brother  had 
been  for  many  years  in  peaceful  possession  of 
the  property  and  his  appeal  was  denied.  He 
served  as  selectman  of  Swansea  before  1675. 
His  wife  bore  the  baptismal  name  of  Mary, 
and  they  had  children:  Samuel,  born  October 
25,  1663;  The  philus,  October  9,  1665;  Mary, 
July  2-,,  1668;  Ebenezer,  December  27.  1678; 
Mehitable,  married  Ebenezer  Cole;  Martha, 
married  Huge  Cole.  The  first  four  are  re- 
corded at  Rehoboth. 

( II )  Hezekiah,  son  of  Captain  John  Luther, 
was  b  rn  about  [639-40,  in  Taunton,  and  died 
July  2T,,  1723,  in  Swansea,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  one  of  the  first  settlers,  in  asso- 
ciation with  his  brother  Samuel.  His  descend- 
ants continued  to  itside  there  and  in  Rehoboth. 
and  in  Warren  and  other  towns  in  Rhode 
Island.  His  first  wife  bore  thfc  name  of  Eliza- 
beth, and  his  second  that  of  Sarah.  Children 
of  first  wife,  born  in  Swansea:  John,  born 
1663,  died  [697;  Nathaniel,  1664,  married, 
June  28,  1693,  Ruth  Cole.  Children  of  second 
wife:  Joseph,  born  February  12,  1669,  died 
March  23,  1736;  Elizabeth,  December  29, 
1671,  married  John  Kinnicutt ;  Edward,  April 
27,  1674,  married  (first)  Sarah  Callender, 
(second)  Elizabeth  Mason;  Hezekiah,  men- 
tioned below:  Hannah,  married  Dr.  Richard 
Winslow. 

(III)  Hezekiah   (2),  fifth  son  of  Hezekiah 

(1)     and    Sarah    ( )     Luther,    was    born 

August  27,  1676,  in  Swansea,  and  married, 
March  23.  1704,  Martha  Gardner.  They  were 
the  parents  of  twelve  children. 

(IV)  Hezekiah  (3),  son  of  Hezekiah  (2) 
and  Martha  (Gardner)  Luther,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1728,  in  Swansea,  where  he  resided. 
He  married,  December  23,  1750,  Mary  Tolls, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  eight  children: 
Hannah,  born  1751 ;  William,  mentioned  be- 
low; Mehitable,  1755:  Israel,  1757;  Elizabeth, 
1750:  Rebecca.  1761 ;  Hezekiah  and  Hopestill 
(twins),   1763. 


(V)  William,  eldest  son  of  Hezekiah  (3) 
and  Mary  (Jolls)  Luther,  was  born  December 
31,  1752,  and  died  at  sea,  May  11,  1784.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution,  serving  first 
under  Captain  Ezra  Ormsbee,  of  the  town  of 
Warren,  in  1776,  and  in  1781  in  Captain  Cur- 
tis Cole's  company  of  Colonel  Nathan  Miller's 
regiment.  Caleb  Salisbury  was  a  soldier  in 
the  same  companies,  as  was  also  his  relative 
Gideon  Luther.  He  married,  about  1774, 
Patience  Miller,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
the  fi  'llowing  children,  born  in  Warren  :  James 
Miller,  October  23,  1776;  Hezekiah,  Novem- 
ber 2i\  1778;  Asa,  mentioned  below;  William. 
April  1.  1784.  The  mother  married  (second) 
Caleb  Salisbury. 

(  VI  )  Asa,  third  son  of  William  and  Pa- 
tience (Miller)  Luther,  was  born  April  24, 
17S1,  in  Warren.  Rhode  Island,  and  settled 
when  a  young  man  in  Albany  county,  New 
York.  Thence  he  removed  to  Saratoga 
county,  where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  pottery  ware  and  lived  until  his  death.  He 
married  Phebe  Purinton,  a  native  of  Saratoga 
county,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  three 
children:  John  Purinton,  George  W..  and 
Caroline. 

(VII)  George  Washington,  son  of  Asa  and 
Phebe  (Purinton)  Luther,  was  born  October 
5,  1815,  in  Saratoga  county,  New  "York,  and 
died  May  10,  1880,  in  Albany.  For  more  than 
forty  years  he  a  inducted  a  retail  coal  busi- 
ness in  Albany,  and  was  successful  in  business 
and  esteemed  as  a  private  citizen.  He  mar- 
ried Phebe  Andrews,  born  March  28,  1813,  in 
Stillwater,  Saratoga  county,  and  died  in  Al- 
bany, September  23,  1882,  daughter  of 
Machiavel  Andrews;  her  father  was  a  prom- 
inent civil  engineer,  residing  in  Stillwater. 
Saratoga  county,  and  constructed  vari- 
ous water  works  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  was  chief  engineer  in  charge  of  construc- 
tion of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  canal.  George 
W.  Luther  and  wife  have  three  children:  1. 
Ellen  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Edward  Cary,  who 
has  been  for  several  years  editor  of  the  New 
York  Times,  and  has  a  daughter  Elisabeth 
Luther  Cary.  2.  John  Asa.  3.  George  Mar- 
tin, mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  George  Martin,  junior  son  of 
George  W.  and  Phebe  (Andrews)  Luther,  was 
born  August  2^,,  184c),  in  Greenbush,  Van 
Rensselaer  countv,   New  York,  and  attended 


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Albany  Academy.  Entering  Cornell  Univers- 
ity, he  graduated  in  1870,  in  his  twenty-first 
year,  after  which  he  continued  to  reside  at 
home,  assisting  his  father  in  business  until 
1885.  In  the  last  named  year  he  removed  to 
New  York  City  and  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
turing business,  becoming  treasurer  of  the  C. 
W.  Hunt  Company  of  New  York,  in  which 
position  he  continued  until  1890.  At  this 
time  the  Nichols  Chemical  Company  was 
formed  and  Mr.  Luther  became  its  secretary, 
and  soon  after  was  made  secretary  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Nichols  Copper  Company 
of  New  York,  in  which  relation  he  has  con- 
tinued until  the  present  time.  He  is  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Granby  Consolidated  Mining 
Smelting  and  Power  Company.  Ltd.,  of  Brit- 
ish Columbia,  and  is  vice-president  of  the 
Albert  Mines  Company  of  Canada.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Albany  Society  of  New  York. 
He  married,  February  12,  1873,  Mary  H. 
Gould,  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  daughter 
of  William  and  Sarah  (Hartness)  Gould. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Luther  are  the  parents  of  two 
daughters :  Mary  Gould  and  Phebe  Andrews. 
The  latter  is  the  wife  of  Philip  Lee  Gill,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  is  mother  of  Philip 
Lee  Gill  Jr.,  born  in  that  borough. 


The      Saugerties     and     Albany 
MYERS     families  of  the  Myer  or  Myers 

name  are  descendants  of  Chris- 
tian Myers,  who  was  born  in  the  village  of 
Wolferlingen.  about  six  miles  northeast  of 
Coblenz.  in  the  Palatinate  on  the  banks  of 
the  Rhine.  March  11,  1688,  and  died  in  Sau- 
gerties, New  York,  January  5,  1781.  He 
and  his  wife  are  buried  on  the  old  Christian 
Myers  farm  at  Churchland,  town  of  Sauger- 
ties, New  York.  He  married.  17 10,  Ann  Geer 
trury  Theunyes.  born  May  15,  1690.  died. Jan- 
uary 9.  1766.  Christian  Myers  and  wife,  with 
the  Palatinate  emigration,  arrived  in  New 
York,  June  24.  17 10,  remaining  with  Governor 
Robert  Hunter  during  the  summer,  and  were 
then  transported  to  West  Camp,  Ulster  county 
New  York,  the  exact  date  of  their  arrival 
there  not  being  known,  nor  the  length  of  their 
stay  at  that  place.  We  next  hear  of  him  as 
the  purchaser  of  the  farm  at  Churchland.  just 
west  of  the  village  of  Saugerties,  February  24, 
1724,  and  there  he  spent  his  remaining  days. 
In  the  course  of  time  he  added  a  large  tract  of 


land  to  his  original  purchase,  and  this  was 
later  apportioned  as  farms  among  several  of 
his  sons.  He  also  erected  a  mill  on  the  Mud- 
dah  Kill.  In  1738  he  was  named  as  one  of 
the  freeholders  of  Kingston,  and  he  was  an 
elder  in  the  Kaatsbaan  church.  His  will,  ex- 
ecuted March  15,  1773,  proved  May  8,  1783, 
bequeaths  to  his  sons  Willem,  Johannis,  Ben- 
jamin (of  whom  further),  Petrus  and  Tobias; 
and  children  of  his  son  Christian,  deceased, 
and  heirs  of  his  daughters,  Marytje,  Christina 
and  Catrina  ( deceased ) ,  and  his  daughter 
Geertje ;  it  also  liberates  and  provides  for  his 
old   slave   Cuff  during  his   life. 

(II)  Benjamin,  son  of  Christian  and  Ann 
Geertruy  ( Theuyes  1  Myers,  born  (  >ctober  21. 
1730,  died  December  12,  1819.  He  married 
Leah,  daughter  of  Teunis  and  Catrina  (Legg) 
Osterhoudt,  the  banns  of  marriage  being  pub- 
lished August  13.  1756.  Children:  1.  Teunis, 
of  whom  further.  2.  Christian,  born  June  5. 
1759;  unmarried.  3.  Stephanus,  born  Decem- 
ber 27,  1760,  died  March,  1841  ;  married  Helen 
Low.  4  Petrus,  born  November  17,  1762, 
died  March,  1841.  5.  Catherine,  born  April 
10.  1769;  married  David  Myer.  6.  Annetje 
(or  Anna),  born  June  23,  1772;  married  Isaac 
Yandenberg.  7.  Marytje,  born  May  10,  1775; 
married  Tjerck  Schoonmaker,  Sr.  8.  Solomon, 
born  October  1,  1786:  died  unmarried. 

(III)  Teunis,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Leah 
(Osterhoudt)  Myers,  was  born  in  1757,  and 
died  November  22,  183 1.  He  resided  at  Sau- 
gerties, New  York,  where  he  owned  consider- 
able property,  on  which  was  a  stone  house 
typical  of  the  period  and  bearing  upon  its 
portals  the  date  of  its  erection,  1746.  This 
house  was  not  far  from  Mount  Marion,  in 
the  Catskill  mountains,  a  beautiful  location 
for  a  residence.  It  was  long  and  low,  with 
an  unusually  steep  roof,  and  was  still  stand- 
ing in  1910.  Teunis  Myers  married,  1781, 
Cornelia,  daughter  of  John  Legg,  who  resided 
where  in  1910  was  the  Sheffield  place,  now 
the  property  of  Henry  Barclay,  of  Saugerties. 
Cornelia  (Legg)  Myers  was  an  intimate  friend 
of  the  wife  of  George  Clinton,  and  when  the 
British  proceeded  up  the  Hudson,  working 
devastation,  she  witnessed  the  burning  of 
Kingston,  October  13,  1777.  Children:  1.  Ben- 
jamin Teunis,  of  whom  further.  2.  Jane,  born 
September  17,  1793,  died  November,  1872; 
married  Peter  G.  Post,  born  January  19,  1792. 


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3.  Solomon,  born  July  14.  1798;  married  Eliza- 
beth Goodwin. 

(IV)  Benjamin  Tennis,  son  of  Teunis  and 
Cornelia  (Legg)  Myers,  was  born  at  Platt- 
skill,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  May  9,  [783, 
died  at  Saugerties,  January  31,  1869.  He  was 
originally  a  farmer  on  a  somewhat  large  scale, 
supplying  the  neighborhood  and  river  towns 
with  the  produce  from  bis  estate,  but  in  the 
later  years  of  his  life  he  was  able  to  retire 
from  business  cares  and  all  activities  in  Sau- 
gerties, where  be  lived  the  greater  part  of  his 
life.  He  married,  at  Plattskill,  September  2, 
1804,  Sarah,  only  daughter  of  Johannes  and 
Leah  (Myer)  Snyder,  and  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  Johannes  Snyder,  of  Ulster  county, 
who  was  colonel  of  the  First  Regiment  of 
Ulster,  May  I,  1776,  also  delegate  to  the  pro- 
vincial congress,  member  of  the  council  of 
safety,  member  of  assembly,  and  president  five 
terms  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  King-ton 
corporation.  Sarah  (Snyder)  Myers  inherited 
a  number  of  slaves  as  a  portion  of  her  dowry, 
one  of  whom  (  Flora)  taught  Mrs.  S.  M.  Tay- 
lor to  knit,  and  another  was  known  as  "(  )ld 
Rub." 

(V)  John  Benjamin,  child  of  Benjamin 
Teunis  and  Sarah  (  Snyder)  Myers,  was  born 
at  Brabant,  near  Kingston,  New  York.  Febru- 
ary 27,  1806,  and  died  in  the  town  of  Mentz. 
near  Port  Byron,  New  York,  February  27, 
1861,  buried  in  Fort  Hill  Cemetery,  Auburn, 
New  York.  His  birth  took  place  on  a  farm 
rented  of  a  Mr.  Cockburn  by  his  father,  who 
soon  purchased  a  farm  wdiere  the  other  chil- 
dren were  born,  lie  married,  at  Saugerties, 
August  12,  1828,  Arriet,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Gillespy,  who  bad  a  record  as  a  lighter 
in  the  American  cause,  and  was  son  of  Major 
John  Gillespy,  who  engaged  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars,  and  afterwards  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution  as  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Ulster 
County  Militia.  Captain  John  Gillespy  fought 
at  the  bead  of  his  company  in  the. War  of 
1812;  for  a  time  he  was  stationed  on  Staten 
Island.  Children:  1.  Benjamin  Gillespy,  born 
at  Saugerties,  August  20,  1829,  died  at  No. 
372  Clinton  avenue.  Albany,  New  York, 
March  5,  1901  ;  married,  at  Port  Byron.  New 
York,  November  23,  1858;  Minerva  Kerns; 
children:  Howard  Gillespy,  born  at  Port 
Byron;  Leila  Whitney,  born  in  New  York 
City;  Lotta  Wright,  born  in  New  York  City. 


2.  John  Gillespy,  of  whom  further.  3.  Sarah, 
born  September  21,  1833;  was  residing  in  Al- 
bany in  1910;  married,  at  Port  Byron,  May 
28,  1863,  Captain  David  Austin  Taylor;  chil- 
dren: John  Myers,  born  near  Port  Byron; 
Lawrence  Hartshorne,  born  at  Camden,  New 
Jersey ;  Grace  Brown,  born  at  Oneida,  New 
York  ;  Ernest  Chandler,  born  at  Guineys,  Vir- 
ginia :  Marion  Lee,  born  at  Albany,  New  York; 
Bessie  Myers,  born  at  Albany.  4.  Jason  Gil- 
lespy, born  January  25,  1840;  unmarried.  5. 
Lavinia,  died  at  Albany,  <  (ctober  20,  1855, 
buried  at  Auburn,  New  York.  6.  Elizabeth, 
born  near  Port  Byron  ;  died  young.  7.  Eliza- 
beth (2d),  living  at  present  time  (1913).  8. 
Selina,  married,  at  Auburn,  New  York.  July 
10,  1878,  S.  Henry  Atwater;  children:  Wini- 
fred Moore,  born  at  Windham,  New  York; 
Reginald  Myers,  born  at  Canon  City,  Colorado. 
(VI)  John  Gillespy,  son  of  John  Benjamin 
and  Arriet  (Gillespy)  Myers,  was  born  in 
Saugerties,  New  York,  August  4,  1832.  died  in 
Albany,  December  1,  1901.  Until  the  age  of 
eight  years  he  lived  with  his  parents  on  their 
farm  in  their  typical  Dutch  farm  house  in  the 
shadow  of  Mount  Marion,  in  the  Catskill 
mountain  range.  About  that  time  his  father 
selected  better  land  than  the  rocky  soil 
of  Ulster  county,  purchasing  a  tract 
near  Montezuma.  Cayuga  county,  and 
here  his  son  aided  him  in  agricultural 
pursuits.  When  fourteen  years  old  he 
returned  to  Saugerties  and  began  his  business 
career  as  a  store  boy  and  general  clerk  for 
his  uncle.  P.  M.  Gillespy.  He  had  been  accus- 
tomed from  early  youth  to  dispose  of  the 
produce  of  his  father's  farm,  and  he  acquired 
a  strong  tendency  for  trade,  made  keen  by  his 
competition  with  other  lads  of  the  neighbor- 
hood. The  connection  with  the  store  in  a 
minor  capacity  simply  interested  and  aroused 
him  to  make  more  rapid  progress  in  some- 
thing better.  But  until  he  became  of  age  he 
remained  in  the  employ  of  his  uncle,  except 
such  times  as  he  was  engaged  in  study  in  the 
little  red  school  house.  He  was  fond  of  read- 
ing and  very  quick  to  observe,  so  that  he  ac- 
quired much  knowledge  even  when  not  in 
school,  and  what  he  learned  in  this  fashion  he 
was  clever  enough  to  turn  to  good  account  in 
later  life.  Even  in  those  days  he  possessed  a 
keen  insight  into  character,  a  faculty  for  de- 


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cision  and  rapid  action,  and  these  governed 
him  throughout  his  life. 

When  twenty-one  years  old  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  two  men  in  the  conduct  of  a  gen- 
eral country  store  at  Port  Byron,  Cayuga 
county,  but  this  partnership  did  not  last  long, 
and  finally  he  was  left  in  sole  possession  to 
dispose  of  the  stock  for  the  benefit  of  the  cred- 
itors. He  succeeded  in  doing  this  by  means 
of  a  trip  through  the  west,  and  the  result  was 
that  through  his  ability  every  creditor  was  paid 
in  full.  After  this  he  obtained  a  position  in 
the  large  wholesale  house  of  Clapp  &  Kent, 
clothing  and  dry  goods  merchants  of  New 
York  City,  and  was  rapidly  promoted.  At  the 
commencement  of  the  rebellion  he  started  in 
business  for  himself  in  New  York,  securing 
for  a  location  the  corner  of  Bleecker  and 
Christopher  streets,  and  here  he  made  some 
money.  In  1865  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
William  M.  Whitney,  in  Albany,  where  they 
succeeded  the  firm  of  Ubsdell,  Pierson  & 
Lenox,  in  the  dry  goods  business,  and  the  store 
on  North  Pearl  street.  Albany,  was  known 
as  the  "New  York  Store."  It  was  by  far  the 
largest  of  its  kind  in  Albany,  and  was  a  pro- 
nounced success.  This  partnership  continued 
five  years,  when  it  was  dissolved,  each  partner 
continuing  in  business  for  himself.  Mr.  Myers 
opened  another  large  store  at  Nos.  39-41 
North  Pearl  street.  An  incident  in  its  his- 
tory was  a  catastrophe  on  the  morning  of 
August  8,  1905,  when,  during  the  course  of 
repairs  and  alterations,  the  floors  sank,  and  as 
a  result  the  handsome  new  building  was  erected 
immediately  upon  the  site  of  the  old  one,  and 
is  a  leading  adornment  of  the  business  section 
of  the  city.  But  of  far  more  importance  than 
a  beautiful  building  in  showing  the  character 
of  the  merchant,  stands  the  system  inaugurated 
by  him  through  which  method  the  employees 
receive  each  year  proportionate  financial  re- 
turns dependent  upon  the  success  of  the  year, 
and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  employees  are 
more  interested  in  doing  their  best  bv  co- 
operation than  are  these,  and  at  the  same 
time  he  gained  what  he  most  desired — their 
good  will  and  high  regard. 

The  business  career  of  Mr.  Myers  knew 
no  wavering  from  that  time  on.  His  strict 
attention  even  to  details,  and  thorough  know- 
ledge of  the  requirements  of  each  depart- 
ment, to  make  for  absolute  success,  were  the 
great    factors    which    brought    such    excellent 


results.  As  his  wealth  increased  he  became 
associated  with  the  development  of  local  en- 
terprise, and  his  name  was  valued  on  differ- 
ent boards  and  companies  for  it  was  a  guar- 
antee of  high  standard.  While  aiding  many 
institutions  liberally,  probably  more  so  in 
some  instances  than  any  other  citizen,  he  was 
decidedly  averse  to  any  publicity.  He  was 
among  the  four  special  commissioners  ap- 
pointed from  among  the  citizens  by  the  mayor, 
in  1 89 1,  to  investigate  means  by  which  an  in- 
creased and  purer  water  supply  could  be  se- 
cured to  the  city,  which  was  prior  to  the 
attempt  to  acquire  a  driven  well  supply  and 
the  installation  of  the  filtration  system. 

He  joined  the  Holland  Society,  December 
7,  1888,  as  one  of  the  earliest  members,  and 
always  took  a  decided  interest  therein.  He 
also  joined  Philip  Livingston  Chapter,  Sons 
of  the  Revolution,  and  aided  in  all  of  its 
movements.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fort 
Orange  Club,  and  his  religious  association  was 
with  the  Presbyterian  faith.  In  politics  he 
was  a  staunch  Republican  throughout  his  life, 
and  a  firm  believer  in  the  policies  of  that 
party.  He  was  president  of  the  Albany  Hos- 
pital, which  probably  interested  him  more  than 
any  other  institution  in  the  city  with  which 
he  was  associated,  and  it  received  his  most 
liberal  support  and  thoughtful  attention.  He 
was  a  governor  of  the  Albany  Orphan  Asy- 
lum, a  director  of  the  Albany  railway;  vice- 
president  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank 
in  1880;  trustee  of  the  Albany  Female  Acad- 
emy, now  known  as  the  Albany  Girls'  Acad- 
emy, and  in  the  erection  of  its  new  and  hand- 
some edifice  he  played  an  important  part ;  was 
first  vice-president  of  the  newly  organized 
Albany  Trust  Company,  and  had  been  a  lead- 
ing spirit  in  its  organization  as  one  of  the 
foremost  business  institutions ;  vice-president 
of  the  Commerce  Insurance  Company ;  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Albany  Rural  Cemetery. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Myers  occurred  on  a 
Sunday  morning,  at  his  home.  No.  240  State 
Street,  Albany,  following  an  illness  of  a  few 
weeks'  duration  In  his  demise  the  citizens 
as  a  body  felt  that  from  their  midst  had  been 
removed  one  who  had  been  respected  among 
the  best  of  them,  and  who  had  been  a  pillar 
of  strength  to  many  philanthropic  institutions. 
His  honesty  and  painstaking  measures  had 
brought  about  a  success  well  merited  and  far 
beyond  the  average.     His  mode  of  living  had 


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been  simple,  although  his  home  was  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  in  the  city,  and  his  bene- 
factions were  the  unostentatious  acts  of  a 
man  bent  upon  doing  good.  lli>  associates 
in  business  admired  his  straightforward, 
manly  methods,  ;md  those  who  met  him  so- 
cially were  impressed  by  his  charming  person- 
ality. Ruth  in  public  and  in  the  privacy  of 
his  family  he  lived  the  conscientious,  kindly 
life  of  a  Christian.  The  Albany  Hospital, 
having  long  received  the  benefits  of  his  coun- 
sel and  benefactions,  felt  hi-  loss  keenly,  and 
the  board  declared  that  "while  his  death  is  a 
loss  to  the  whole  city,  it  falls  especially  upon 
the  hospital  board,  ami  mi  the  benevolent  work- 
in  which  with  them  he  was  so  deeply  inter- 
ested." He  had  been  governor  of  this  insti- 
tution for  many  years,  and  both  his  wisdom 
and  liberality  had  been  of  the  greatest  ser- 
vice, with  a  record  of  never  having  been  ab- 
sent from  a  meeting  when  possible  to  attend 
When  the  work  of  constructing  a  new  hos- 
pital was  begun,  his  contributions  created  one 
of  the  pavilions,  and  were  also  an  encourage- 
ment to  those  struggling  with  the  enormous 
undertaking. 

John  Gillespy  Myers  married,  at  Cayuga, 
New  York,  August  19,  1857,  Mary  Augusta 
Young,  the  Rev.  Frederick  Starr,  of  Auburn, 
officiating.  She  was  born  at  Auburn,  Febru- 
ary 22.  1833,  died  at  her  home  in  Albany, 
February  9,  10114,  daughter  of  Jacob  Young, 
of  Auburn,  who  enlisted  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was 
present  at  the  sortie  at  Fort  Erie ;  and  grand- 
daughter of  Christian  Young,  who  served 
throughout  the  Revolution,  and  received  his 
honorable  discharge,  which  is  signed  by  Gen- 
eral George  Washington. 

During  their  long  residence  in  Albany  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Myers  co-operated  with  each  other 
in  philanthropic  work,  she  making  good  use 
of  the  means  placed  at  her  disposal  for  the 
alleviation  of  suffering  and  the  comfort  of 
the  afflicted.  But  the  good  accomplished  was 
not  allowed  to  reach  the  public  ear,  for  it  was 
her  own  pleasure  akin  to  her  nature.  She 
was  a  woman  of  sympathetic  nature,  and 
more  than  willing  to  listen  to  appeals.  She 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Fresbyterian 
Church,  aided  in  its  various  interests,  belong- 
ing also  to  a  number  of  local  institutions.  Of 
her  it  was  said:  "When  the  final  honors  have 
been  paid  to  her  mortality,  and  her  last  rest- 


ing place  on  earth  has  become  a  reality,  the 
world  will  know  no  more  a  woman  who  bene- 
fited it  by  her  being,  and  whose  memory  will 
long  be  cherished  for  the  good  that  she  did." 
Children  of  John  Gillespy  and  Mary  Au- 
gusta (Young)  Myers,  are  as  follows:  1. 
Margaret  Fuller,  born  at  Mintline,  Cayuga 
county.  New  York,  May  6,  1858;  married,  at 
Saugerties,  New  York,  September  2,  1891, 
Henry  King  Sturdee,  born  in  London,  Eng- 
land. August  13,  18511,  son  of  Captain  Edwin 
Thomas  Sturdee,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  and  had 
children  :  Georgiana  Myers,  born  at  Albany. 
April  7.  1892;  Flora  Margaret,  born  at  Al- 
bany, November  27,  1X1)4.  2.  Jessie  Kenyon, 
born  at  Auburn,  October  19.  1859;  married 
at  Albany,  September  14,  1899,  Colonel 
George  Porter  Hilton,  son  of  Charles  and 
Mary  Etta  (MacWhorteri  Hilton,  born  in 
Albany,  March  19,  1859,  died  at  his  home,  No. 
240  State  Street.  Albany,  October  7.  1909; 
had  one  son :  John  Gillespy  Myers  Hilton, 
born  in  Albany.  May  11,  1901.  3.  Georgiana 
Seymour,  born  in  New  York  City,  August  14, 
1861,  died  at  Saugerties,  New  York,  June  13. 
1893  ;  married,  at  Albany,  November  24.  1891, 
Walter  Launt  Palmer,  A.  N.  A.,  born  at  Al- 
bany, August  1,  1854,  son  of  Erastus  Dow 
and  Mary   (Seaman)    Palmer. 


One    finds    the    signifi- 
VAN  ALSTYNE     cance     of     the     family 

name  of  Van  Alstyne 
in  the  Dutch,  meaning  from  the  old  or  high 
stone,  and  therefore  those  who  first  bore  that 
name  as  a  distinctive  family  in  Holland  dwelt 
upon  the  top  of  a  rocky  eminence,  or  near  to 
some  enormous  boulder  which  for  years  had 
been  a  prominent  landmark  among  all  the  in- 
habitants of  that  neighborhood.  There  have 
been  a  number  of  forms  for  the  spelling  of 
the  name,  as  the  early  records  show  by  the 
variety  of  signatures  attached  to  official  docu- 
ments, such  as  Van  Aelsteyn,  Van  Aalsteyn, 
Van  Alstyn,  Van  Alstein  and  Van  Alstine. 
Since  coming  to  this  country  the  centuries 
have  not  added  to  the  diversity,  but  rather 
simplified  matters,  for  at  the  present  time  the 
chief  forms  are  Van  Alstyne,  Van  Alstine  and 
Van  Alstyn. 

Those  who  have  delved  deeplv  into  the 
family  history  have  demonstrated  that  the 
records  still  preserved  in  Holland  show  that 
the  line  of  descent  mav  be  traced  tc  the  vear 


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936,  dating  contemporaneous  with  the  crown- 
ing of  Otho,  Henry  Van  Alstyn  was  present. 
It  may  seem  peculiar,  but  the  family  name 
first  appears  as  Ralsko,  which  was  abandoned 
in  order  to  take  that  of  Wartemberg,  which 
it  bore  for  several  centuries.  Jean  Ralsko 
who  died  in  Flanders,  in  1236,  had  built  there 
the  Chateau  de  Waldstein,  the  name  of  which 
he  took  in  order  to  distinguish  himself  from 
his  brother,  who  bore  that  of  Wartemberg. 
The  family  has  been  traced  under  the  name 
of  Balstein  in  Spain,  Vallenstcin  in  France. 
Halsteyn  in  Flanders,  and  Van  Alstein  in 
Holland.  From  Waldstein  the  name  changed 
to  Wallenstein,  Walstein,  Valstein,  and  finally 
became  Van  Alstein.  Those  who  located  in 
iFlanders  were  loyal  to  the  Church  of  Rome, 
and  those  living  in  Holland  allied  themselves 
to  the  Reformation  of  Martin  Luther,  and 
I  displayed  the  courage  of  their  convictions. 
Those  who  came  to  America  have  particularly 
[demonstrated  their  courage  of  independent 
[thought  and  action,  and  were  well  represented 
in  the  war  of  American  independence  as  well 
;as  in  the  Civil  War.  Invariably  they  have 
ibeen  men  of  middle  ground,  neither  acquiring 
[great  riches  nor  suffering  poverty,  freed  both 
from  the  worries  of  life  and  the  cares  of 
wealth.  In  like  degree  they  have  been  prom- 
iinent  in  politics  and  religion,  as  well  as  in 
the  professions. 

(I)  Jan  Martense  Van  Alstyne  was  the  pro- 
genitor of  the  family  in  America.  He  was 
ithe  son  of  Marten  (or  Martin)  Van  Alstyne, 
of  Holland.  There  is  a  record  to  prove  that 
he  was  in  New  Amsterdam  (New  York  City) 
as  early  as  1646,  the  exact  date  of  this  entry 
being  December  11,  1646,  upon  a  bill  of  sale 
of  a  yacht,  namely,  Thomas  Hall  and  Tan 
Peterson  to  Hendrick  Jansen  and  Jan  Mar- 
tense.  It  seems  evident  from  what  transpired 
later,  that  he  engaged  in  transportation  upon 
the  Hudson  river,  between  New  York  and 
Albany,  for  within  a  decade  he  began  buying 
land  at  the  latter  place.  It  is  not  known  just 
how  long  he  remained  upon  Manhattan,  but 
he  was  recorded  in  1657  as  owner  of  a  lot 
in  Beverwyck,  or  Albany,  New  York,  located 
upon  the  east  side  of  Broadway  and  north  of 
Columbia  street,  which  was  beyond  the  north 
wall  of  the  stockade,  built  to  keep  out  the 
Indians  about  that  time.  This  land  he  held 
as  late  as  1693,  and  in  the  meanwhile  had  be- 
come the  patentee  of  two  tracts   of   land   in 


Ulster  county.  Possibly  he  had  stopped  there 
while  making  one  of  his  trips  and  had  been 
shown  good  land  which  was  offered  to  him. 
He  likewise  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land 
"behind"  Kinderhook,  New  York,  about  a 
score  of  miles  from  Albany  and  east  of  it. 
This  became  the  real  home  of  the  family,  and 
he  the  founder  of  it  in  every  sense.  The  place 
was  so  named  because  in  the  Dutch  it  signifies 
"Children's  Point,"  which  is  thought  to  have 
been  bestowed  because  of  the  great  number 
of  Indian  children  who  ran  out  on  the  point  of 
land  the  better  to  observe  the  passing  of  Hen- 
drick Hudson's  ships.  (Rev.  Mr.  Collier's  ad- 
dress,  "Kinderhook.")  The  first  proprietor  re- 
sided there  until  his  death,  which  was  about 
1698,  and  the  land  continued  for  more  than 
two  centuries  in  the  possession  of  the  descend- 
ants of  his  son  Abraham,  to  whom  he  con- 
veyed the  farm  in  1695,  conditioned  on  his 
paying  the  other  heirs  certain  sums  of  money 
as  provided  explicitly.  He  married  Dirckje 
Harmense,  a  woman  endowed  with  all  the 
characteristics  necessary  to  make  her  a  fitting 
helpmate  for  a  pioneer  husband.  Their  chil- 
dren were  named  Marten,  Abraham,  Lambert 
and  Isaac. 

(II)  Lambert  Janse,  son  of  Jan  Martense 
and  Dirckje  (Harmense)  Van  Alstyne,  emi- 
grated to  this  country  in  1665,  and  settled  in 
Kings  county,  New  York ;  but  no  record  has 
been  found  of  his  birth.  About  1684  he  came 
into  possession  of  a  tract  of  land  lying  on  the 
east  side  of  Kinderhook  Creek,  and  adjoining 
the  lands  of  his  father.  This  he  acquired  by 
purchase  of  the  patent  or  lease  from  the  heirs 
of  Peter  Van  Alen.  He  held  it  until  his 
death,  October  13,  1703.  About  the  year  1682 
he  married  Jannetje,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Marritje  Abrahamse  (Vosburgh)  Mingael, 
she  and  her  husband  being  first  cousins  once 
removed,  as  her  father  and  her  husband  were 
first  cousins.  There  is  no  record  of  her  birth, 
but  she  was  doubtless  much  younger  than  he, 
for  following  his  demise  she  married,  Febru- 
ary 2,  1713,  Jochem  Lambertse  Van  Yalken- 
burgh,  and  had  five  sons.  As  all  their  chil- 
dren excepting  the  first-born  were  baptized  in 
Kinderhook,  it  is  safe  to  believe  that  the  eldest 
was  born  in  Kings  county,  New  York,  and 
all  the  others  after  his  removal,  about  1684, 
in  Kinderhook.  Children:  1.  Catherine,  born 
about  1683 ;  married  Bartholomeus  Van  Yal- 
kenburgh.    2.  Marritje,  baptized  December  27, 


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[685.  3.  Thomas  (see  forward).  4.  Johan- 
nes, baptized  August  11,  1691.  5.  Direkje, 
baptized  Way  26,  1695;  married  Pieter  Vos- 
burgh.  6.  Antje,  or  Annetje,  baptized  Janu- 
ary 16,  [698;  died  young.  7.  Annetje,  bap- 
tized July  jiS,  1700.  8,  Pieter,  baptized  Au- 
gust <>.  1702. 

(HI)  Thomas,  son  of  Lambert  Janse  and 
Jannetje  (Mingael)  Van  Alstyne,  was  bap- 
tized in  Kinderhook,  New  York,  August  22, 
[688.  Upon  the  death  of  his  father  in  1703 
he  came  into  possession  of  the  homestead  ly- 
ing along  Kinderhook  Creek,  adjacent  to  the 
farm  of  his  grandfather,  the  pioneer  settler. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  church  of 
Muitzeskill,  where  were  baptize'!  most  of  his 
offspring,  although  one  of  them,  Maria,  was 
baptized  in  Albany.  In  1752  he  bought  a  tract 
of  land  in  the  district  of  Claverack,  described 
in  the  records  kept  at  Hudson,  New  York,  as 
lying  between  the  Claverack  and  Kinderhook 
creeks.  His  will,  dated  November  15,  1760,  on 
file  in  Albany,  devises  the  farm  occupied  by 
William  and  his  big  gun  to  that  son,  provided 
that  he  pay  off  the  debt  on  it,  amounting  to 
£100,  and  divided  the  property  among  five 
children,  after  providing  for  the  support  of  his 
wife  during  life,  and  to  Pieter  his  bouwerie  or 
whole  farm,  with  all  belongings  thereto,  pro- 
vided that  he  pay  his  brother  Lambert  £400 
in  current  money  within  six  years  of  the  tes- 
tator's death.  He  died  in  August,  1765,  at 
Kinderhook.  He  married,  December  12,  1718, 
Maria  Wan  Alen.  She  was  baptized  June  21, 
1695,  daughter  of  Willem  and  Marritje  (  Van 
Patten)  Van  Alen.  Children:  1.  Jannetje, 
baptized  March  6,  1720;  died  young.  2.  Wil- 
liam (see  forward).  3.  Lambert,  baptized 
October  4,  1724;  married  (first)  Alida  Conyn  ; 
(second)  Aletteka  Osterhout.  4.  Maria,  bap- 
tized September  10  1727;  died  young.  5. 
Catherine,  baptized  January  17,  1731  ;  married 
Petrus  Hoffman.  6.  Maria,  baptized  Novem- 
ber 18,  1733 ;  married  Dr.  Johannes  Paterson. 
7.  Pieter.  baptized  May  16,  1736;  married 
Marritje  Conyn. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Thomas  and  Maria 
(Van  Alen)  Van  Alstyne,  was  baptized  at 
Muitzeskill  (near  Troy),  New  York,  Decem- 
ber 10,  1721.  In  1752  he  and  his  wife  were 
members  of  the  Dutch  church  of  Kinderhook. 
He  probably  settled  upon  the  farm  which  had 
just  come  into  possession  of  his  father  by  pur- 
chase of  the  patent  from  John  Van  Rensse- 


laer, and  which  was  bequeathed  to  him  out- 
right on  his  father's  death,  situate  betweer 
Kinderhook  and  Claverack  creeks.     On  Ma} 

1,  1772,  he  leased  a  house,  shop  and  a  fulling 
mill,  with  dam  and  two  acres,  to  Thoma; 
Avery,  ami  as  much  wood  as  he  required  foi 
burning.  In  August.  1 791,  he  bought  a  farn 
in  Hillside,  from  John  Collier.  A  documen 
bearing  date  October  19,  1793,  deeds  a  negn 
boy  named  Tom  to  his  son  Lawrence.  Oi 
July  12,  1799,  he  sold  to  the  same  son  thi 
farm  he  had  bought  of  Nicholas  and  Philij 
Hoffman  a  few  years  before.  He  was  com 
missioned  a  captain  in  Colonel  Jeremiah  Hoge 
boom's  regiment,  which  served  in  the  revolu 
tionary  war;  his  commission  signed  by  Goy 
ernor  Cadwalader  Colden,  preserved  by  th 
Holland  Society,  bears  date  April  4,  177c 
He  died  May  22,  1802,  and  his  tombstone  wa 
found  a  century  ,ater  on  the  farm  which  hi 
had  bought  of  the  Hoffmans.  William  Vai 
Alstyne  married  (first)  in  1744,  Christin; 
Van  Alen,  baptized  June  id,  1723,  daughter  o 
Stephanus  and  Mary  (  Muller)  Van  Alen,  b; 
whom  he  had  five  children.  He  married  (sec 
ond)  September  iy,  1762,  Catherine  Knicker 
bocker,  who  was  baptized  October  19,  1731 
daughter  of  Lawrence  and  Catherine  (Vai 
Home )  Knickerbocker  ;  by  whom  he  had  f  ou 
children.  Children:  1.  Maria,  baptizei 
March  2^,    1745;  married   Richard  Esselstyn 

2.  Hilletje,  baptized  January  25,  1746;  diei 
young.  3.  Jannetje,  baptized  February  25 
1749;  married  William  Winne,  Jr.  4.  Alber 
tina,  born  in  1754;  married  John  De  Forest 
5.  Thomas  (see  forward).  6.  Lawrence,  bon 
June  22,  1767;  married  Mary  Murdock.  7 
William,  born  January  31,  1770;  marriei 
Maria  Vosburgh.  8.  Mary,  born  January  t 
i/73 ;   married  John  Leggett. 

(V)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  William  and  Cath 
erine  (Knickerbocker)  Van  Alstyne,  was  bon 
at  Kinderhook,  New  York,  February  18,  1765 
In  the  Columbia  county  records,  under  dat 
of  May  7,  1795,  it  is  stated  that  he  and  hi 
wife,  together  with  other  ownership  claim 
ants,  deeded  the  farm  which  was  apparentl; 
the  property  of  the  first  Thomas  Van  Alstyn 
secured  from  John  Van  Rensselaer,  in  1752 
to  Thomas  Goldthwait.  He  died  Septembe 
10.  1838.  Thomas  Van  Alstyne  married  Ma 
bel  Butler,  born  January  3,  1768,  died  Januar 
10,  1832,  daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Mabe 
(Jones)  Butler.    Her  father  displayed  so  mucl 


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zeal  in  the  American  cause  for  liberty  that 
the  British  offered  a  reward  for  his  head, 
dead  or  alive,  and  it  is  probable  that  he  died 
before  the  close  of  hostilities,  because  he  was 
privately  buried  for  fear  that  his  body  would 
be  disinterred  for  the  sake  of  the  reward. 
Mabel  Butler  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Colonel  John  Jones,  one  of  the  regicides  of 
Charles  I.,  whose  wife  Henrietta  was  sister 
of  Oliver  Cromwell.  Children:  i.  William, 
born  November  12,  1791 ;  died  October  12, 
1867 ;  married  Polly  Ostrander.  2.  Maria, 
married  February  14,  181 5,  Martin  Barton. 
3.  Catherine,  married,  March  13.  1819,  Scovi! 
Martin.  4.  Thomas  Butler  (see  forward).  5. 
John  Thomas,  born  September  28,  1800;  mar- 
ried, February  8,  1826,  Jane  Ackerman ;  died 
February  10,  1876.  6.  Temperance,  born  in 
1802 ;  died  October  29,  1877.  7.  Jane,  born 
March  4,  1805;  died  December  18,  1886;  mar- 
ried, December  27,  1827,  Dr.  Levi  B.  Skinner. 
8.  Lawrence,  born  February  16,  1807 ;  died 
January  18,  1835 ;  married,  March  28,  1829, 
Eliza  Van  Hoesen.  9.  Sally,  married  John 
Van  Bramer.  10.  Ezekiel  Butler,  born  No- 
vember 6,  181 1.  11.  Louisa,  born  November 
27,  1813;  died  February  11,  1871 ;  married, 
December  14,  1839,  Rev.  Nicholas  Van 
Alstine. 

(VI)  Dr.  Thomas  Butler  Van  Alstyne,  son 
of  Thomas  (2)  and  Mabel  (Butler)  Van  Al- 
styne, was  born  in  Ghent,  Columbia  county, 
New  York,  July  27,  1797,  and  died  at  Rich- 
mondville.  Schoharie  county.  New  York,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1867.  He  was  a  well-known  physician  of 
Richmondville,  Schoharie  county.  New  York. 
After  attending  school  in  his  native  place  he 
went  to  Hudson,  near  there,  as  a  clerk  in  a  gen- 
eral merchandise  store.  This  work  was  not  con- 
genial, hence  he  decided  to  follow  his  inclina- 
nation,  which  was  for  the  medical  profession. 
With  this  in  view  he  began  his  studies  under 
Dr.  Samuel  White,  of  Hudson,  and  graduated 
in  1818  from  the  Fairfield  Medical  College. 
The  following  year,  according  to  the  advice 
of  his  former  friend,  Dr.  White,  he  located 
at  Richmondville,  and  continued  to  practice 
there  through  forty  years,  making  consider- 
able success  and  gaining  a  reputation  through 
out  a  wide  area.  He  was  often  summoned  in 
consultation  cases,  and  was  offered  a  medical 
professorship,  which  he  declined.  He  was  a 
forceful  advocate  of  the  abolition  of  slavery, 
and  not  only  practiced  what  he  preached  in 


that  line  during  the  civil  war ;  but  was  also  a 
strong  advocate  on  the  platform  in  the  move- 
ment for  abstinence  from  intoxicants. 

Dr.  Thomas  B.  Van  Alstyne  married,  Au- 
gust 10,  1820,  Eliza  Shepard  Giles,  who  was 
born  October  28,  1799,  and  died  at  Richmond- 
ville, New  York,  May  13,  1877.  Children4. 
1.  Jane  Ann,  born  May  22,  1821  ;  died  De- 
cember 4,  1853;  married,  October  8,  1839 
Rev.  Joseph  Kingsley  Barry.  2.  Thomas  \\\, 
born  December  12,  1822;  died  April  25,  1825. 
3.  Thomas  Jefferson  (see  forward).  4.  Syl- 
vester Memford,  born  February  28,  1833; 
died  October  28,  1882 ;  married,  July  9,  1855, 
Cynthia  E.  Whitney.  5.  Fayette  Edgar,  born 
June  15,  1837:  died  September  30,  1905;  mar- 
ried, August  19,  1857,  Rose  M.  Markel.  6. 
John  Lawrence,  born  October  8,  1840:  mar- 
ried, October  8,  1868,  Carrie  A.  Shults.  7. 
Mary  Eliza,  born  March  18,  1846;  married, 
November  7,  1873,  J.  Leslie  Multer. 

(VII)  Hon.  Thomas  Jefferson  Van  Alstyne, 
son  of  Dr.  Thomas  Butler  and  Eliza  Shepard 
(Giles)  Van  Alstyne,  was  born  in  Richmond- 
ville, Schoharie  county,  New  York,  July  25, 
1827,  where  his  father  was  practicing  medi 
cine,  and  died  at  his  home,  No.  289  State 
street,  Albany,  of  heart  failure,  October  26, 
1903.  He  first  attended  the  public  schools, 
but  his  strong  inclination  for  knowledge  and  a 
desire  for  success  in  life's  work  led  him  to 
prepare  for  higher  education.  At  the  age  of 
thirteen,  while  visiting  at  the  home  of  his 
brother-in-law,  a  Baptist  minister  in  Cayuga 
county,  he  conceived  the  purpose  of 
acquiring  an  education  which  would  place 
him  in  position  to  make  his  mark,  if 
backed  by  serious  effort,  so  he  entered 
the  Moravia  Academy.  After  that  he  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Hartwick  Seminary, 
and  with  six  companions  matriculated  at  Ham- 
ilton College,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1848,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts,  and  in  185 1  that  of  Master  of  Arts.  He 
was  especially  excellent  in  mathematics,  and 
had  a  high  general  standing  He  then  took  up 
the  study  of  law  under  Professor  Theodore 
W  Dwight.  who  was  prominent  later  on  at 
Columbia  College.  Having  graduated,  he  en- 
tered the  law  office  of  Harris  &  Van  Vorst 
at  Albany,  and  by  diligent  application,  com- 
bined with  his  previous  study  of  the  law,  was 
able  to  pass  a  most  satisfactory  examination 
before  the  close  of  the  year,  the  examining 


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committee  consisting  of  the  well-known  attor- 
neys, Hon.  John  11.  Reynolds.  Hon.  John  K. 
Porter  and  (  )rlando  Meads.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  on  March  6,  1848,  and  in  1850 
opened  his  office,  continuing  to  practice  alone 
until  1853,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Matthew  McMahon,  which  firm  continued 
four  years,  when  Mr.  Van  Alstyne  formed  a 
partnership  in  1S5S  with  Winfield  Scott  Heve- 
nor,  of  Albany,  and  they  opened  their  office 
in  the  old  I  >ouw  Building,  at  the  southwest 
corner  nf  Broadway  and  State  street,  Albany. 
From  1858  until  he  died  in  1903,  or  for  forty- 
five  years,  he  practiced  there. 

Mr.  Van  Alstyne  had  a  noteworthy  political 
life,  and  ranked  high  in  the  councils  of  the 
Democratic  party,  at  whose  hands  he  received 
a  number  of  offices,  each  of  which  he  filled 
with  a  noble  record  for  efficiency  and  integ- 
rity, lie  was  elected  judge  of  Albany  county 
in  1871,  and  presided  for  twelve  years.  In 
1882  he  was  elected  congressman,  taking  his 
seat  in  the  Forty-eighth  Congress,  and  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
claims,  and  also  on  that  of  expenditures  of 
the  department  of  justice.  To  his  constitu- 
ents he  gave  thorough  attention  to  their  needs, 
ami  he  furnished  entire  satisfaction  to  friends 
and  foes  alike.  His  party  renominated  him, 
but  dissension  in  the  ranks  ruined  his  chances. 
Judge  Van  Alstyne  was  elected  mayor  of 
Albany  on  November  2.  1897,  and  served 
from  January  1,  i8w8.  to  iqoo.  His  oppo 
nents  were  (  ieneral  Selden  E.  Marvin,  of  the 
Republican  party,  who  received  6,014  votes; 
Alderman  George  II.  Stevens,  Independent, 
who  received  6,012  votes;  Robert  H.  Moore 
and  George  Du  Bois;  and  the  judge  received 
8,172  votes.  Judge  Van  Alstyne  was  a  prom- 
inent Mason,  associating  himself  with  that 
body  when  a  young  man  by  entering  Mount 
Vernon  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
(  Ictober  4,  1855;  made  master  mason,  Novem- 
ber 19,  1855;  master,  1858-61;  marshal,  1865. 
He  officiated  frequently  on  various  commit- 
tees and  often  rendered  excellent  service  by 
sound  advice.  In  his  religion  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Emmanuel  Baptish  Church  at  Al- 
bany, and  along  the  lines  of  Christian  work 
he  became  a  life  member  of  the  Young 
Men's  Association,  organized  for  the  upbuild- 
ing of  the  youth,  in  those  days  conducting  the 
only  city  library  and  educating  by  the  medium 
of    platform    lectures    addressed    by    lyceum 


speakers.  He  was  particularly  concerned 
the  work  of  the  Albany  Institute,  and  t 
preparatory  work  of  its  curator,  Cuyler  Rey 
olds,  in  combining  that  old  organization  wi 
the  Albany  Historical  and  Art  Society,  w 
only  carried  through  by  the  vigorous  spee 
in  the  advocacy  of  the  plan  made  by  Jud 
Wan  Alstyne,  for  there  was  almost  overwheh 
ing  opposition  to  what  has  since  proved  a  pra 
tical  combination  of  societies  performing  sin 
lar  work.  He  had  the  faculty  of  being  aggre 
sive  in  the  right,  along  logical  lines,  and  r 
arguments  were  always  convincing.  He  w 
impatient  at  delay  in  discussions  at  meetin 
of  any  sort,  when  lay  members  talked  aroui 
the  subject,  and  when  satisfied  he  saw  t' 
features  would  introduce  his  views  throuj 
the  medium  of  a  resolution  which  usual 
closed  the  matter  immediately.  In  this  ma 
ner  he  would  have  made  an  exceedingly  at 
executive  official  of  a  big  corporation  ;  but  1 
enjoyed  the  practice  of  law,  and  maintain' 
in  his  office  an  ample  library  of  leg 
works.  He  was  very  fond  of  his  well  stocki 
home  library  of  more  than  10,000  volume 
which  contained  mostly  histories,  biographi 
and  works  pertaining  to  America.  (  )ne  of  1 
greatest  pleasures  was  to  gather  them  wher 
ever  he  traveled.  lie  was  a  man  of  mo 
than  ordinary  physique  both  in  stature  at 
power  of  frame,  with  a  bright,  piercing  ey 
anil  a  firm,  elastic  step.  Ilis  ready  wit  at 
delightful  conversational  powers  were  charr 
ing  attributes  of  one  who  was  welcomed  s 
daily  everywhere  he  went.  Best  of  all  the 
was  no  hypocrisy  about  him,  and  those  wl 
were  his  friends  and  family  could  ever  re 
upon  his  deep  affection  and  help.  In  a  wor 
he  was  a  good  official  and  citizen. 

Judge  Thomas  J.  Van  Alstyne  marri( 
(first),  at  Albany,  September  2.  1851,  San 
Clapp ;  she  was  born  at  Albany,  February  2 
1832,  died  there,  September  25,  1859,  daughfc 
of  Reuel  Clapp,  of  the  Albany  firm  of  Clar 
&  Townsend,  and  Sarah  Coon,  of  Dorcheste 
Massachusetts.  He  married  (second),  at  A 
bany,  New  York,  September  2,  1875,  Nan< 
Louisa  Peck,  of  Albany,  New  York ;  she  w; 
born  July  14,  1842,  died  at  Albany,  New  Yor 
November  12,  1884,  daughter  of  Samuel  ! 
Peck  and  Eliza  M.  (Collum)  Peck.  He  ma 
ried  (third),  at  Washington,  D.  C,  Februai 
17,  1886,  Laura  Louisa,  daughter  of  Willia: 
and    Lydia    (Van    Derbilt )     Wiedemann,    c 


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Washington,  D.  C,  the  former  having  been  a 
-  noted  manufacturer  of  astronomical  and 
mathematical  instruments.  Children:  I. 
Thomas  Butler,  born  at  Albany,  June  3,  1852; 
married,  May  7,  1879,  Anna  Richards,  daugh- 
ter of  Lysander  and  Content  (Clapp)  Rich- 
ards, of  Washington,  D.  C.  2.  Charles  Edwin, 
born  at  Albany,  July  18,  1855  ;  died  at  Albany, 
New  York,  July  10,  1858.  3.  William  Thomas 
(see  forward). 

(VIII)  William  Thomas  Van  Alstyne,  son 
'  of  Hon.  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Laura  (  Wiir- 
'  demann)  Van  Alstyne,  was  born  at  Albany, 
;  New  York,  in  his  father's  home,  No.  289  State 
street,  July  28,  1887.  He  received  his  prepa- 
ratory education  at  the  Albany  Academy,  un 
der  a  private  tutor,  and  then  entered  Yale 
University.  While  there  he  belonged  to  the 
Yale  Chapter  of  the  Acacia  fraternity,  and 
graduated  Ph.B.,  in  1910.  He  studied  law  at 
Columbia  University,  having  selected  upon 
the  profession  in  which  his  father  had  made 
his  mark,  graduated  February,  1913,  LL.B., 
and  November  10,  1913,  it  was  announced  that 
he  had  passed  his  examination  for  admission 
to  the  bar  of  New  York  State.  He  associated 
himself  with  Charles  Oakes,  formerly  of  Al- 
bany, at  No.  2  Rector  street,  New  York  City. 
He  joined  the  Seventh  Regiment  in  April, 
191 1,  and  in  December,  1913,  was  promoted 
to  the  grade  of  second  lieutenant  and  assigned 
to  the  First  Regiment  Field  Artillery,  N.  G. 
N.  Y.  He  is  a  member  of  Mount  Vernon 
Lodge  No.  3,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  in 
politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and  attends  the 
Baptist  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Albany,  and  the  Yale  Club, 
of  New  York  City,  where  he  resides. 


The  highly  distinguished  fam 
CLINTON  ily  of  Clinton  traces  its  ances- 
try in  America  to  Charles 
Clinton  ( 1690-1773),  who  in  1729  came  from 
county  Longford.  Ireland,  and  with  other 
Protestant  immigrants  organized  a  settlement 
at  Little  Britain  in  what  was  then  Ulster  (now 
Orange)  county.  New  York.  A  descendant 
in  a  cadet  branch  of  Edward  Clinton  (1512- 
85),  ninth  Baron  Clinton  and  first  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  he  belonged  to  that  historic  house  of 
Clinton,  which  was  established  in  England  at 
the  Norman  conquest,  received  extensive 
grants  of  estates,  and,  enjoying  constantly  in- 
creasing dignities,  with  the  highest  distinction 


for  public  services  and  the  fairest  pedigree 
and  reputation,  came  down  to  his  time  in  an 
unbroken  male  succession  for  six  centuries.  A 
man  of  character,  attainments  and  ability 
Charles  Clinton  was  a  useful  and  influential 
citizen  of  New  York,  commanded  a  regiment 
in  the  French  and  Indian  war  (participating 
in  the  capture  of  Fort  Frontenac),  was  a  com- 
missioner for  the  settlement  of  the  boundary 
dispute  with  New  Jersey,  and  was  judge  of 
his  county. 

He  had  four  sons,  two  of  whom  left  issue 
and  to-day  have  posterity.  These  were  James 
Clinton  (1736-1812),  the  eminent  revolution- 
ary general,  and  George  Clinton  (1739-1812), 
the  first  governor  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
for  twenty-one  years  the  incumbent  of  that 
office,  and  for  eight  years  vice-president  of 
the  United  States.  Arms:  Argent,  six 
crosses  crosslet  fitchee  sable ;  on  a  chief  azure 
two  mullets  pierced  or.  Crest :  Out  of  a 
coronet  gules  five  ostrich  feathers  argent, 
banded  azure.  Motto:  Patria  cava  carior 
libertas.  In  a  British  work  of  eminent  au- 
thority occurs  the  following  striking  charac- 
terization of  the  Clinton  family  : 

"It  is  really  a  great  house,  .  .  .  and  foi 
seven  hundred  years  has  thrown  a  scarcely  in- 
termitted succession  of  men  who  have  spent 
their  lives  in  the  furtherance  of  England's 
greatness  and  policy.  If  it  has  never  had 
genius  it  has  also  never  produced  a  traitor,  and 
if  it  has  never  risen  to  the  lofty  position  of 
one  or  two  of  its  rivals,  it  has  not  in  its  records 
chapters  which  it  would  give  estates  to  conceal. 
Always  in  front  but  never  in  command,  this 
great  house  had  the  clearest  pedigree  in  all 
England." 

This  expresses  in  brief  the  conclusions  of 
all  writers  who  have  given  critical  attention  to 
the  Clinton  family  history.  The  pedigree  is 
one  of  the  most  remarkable  to  be  found  in  the 
whole  scope  of  genealogical  science.  It  is 
completely  and  precisely  traceable  from  the 
Norman  conquest  to  the  present  time,  a  most 
exceptional  fact,  as  every  ^eneilogist  knows. 
As  long  ago  as  1558,  in  an  examination  by  the 
House  of  Lords  to  determine  the  exact  status 
(as  to  precedence)  of  the  th»n  head  of  the 
Clinton  house,  reference  was  made  to  the 
"great  antiquity"  and  "long  continuance"  of 
his  ancestral  line,  and  he  was  declared  the 
"second  lord  of  the  realm."  Moreover,  the 
Clinton  descent — embracing  at  the  present  time 


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some  twenty-five  generations — has  never  suf- 
fered any  interregnum  in  the  male  stem  (re- 
medied by  subsequent  resumption  of  the  fam- 
ily name  in  the  female  succession  ) ,  as  is  so 
often  the  case  in  pedigrees  of  such  length. 
There  is  historical  evidence  that  the  Clinton 
name  existed  in  England  before  the  conquest. 
In  1502  John  Hakluyt,  the  antiquarian,  dis- 
covered in  the  church  of  Loominster  a  brass 
tablet  which  perpetuated,  in  the  Saxon  lan- 
guage, the  memory  of  one  Kenelm,  of  the 
Saxon  royal  house,  who  was  buried  in  that 
place  in  1060.  The  inscription  included  the  fol- 
lowing: "My  fathers  did  build  upon  this,  my 
town,  and  at  Kenelnisford.  Kenelmswearth 
(Kenilworth)   and  at   Clint       .        .  and 

Reinelmebald  at  Clinton  is  my  kinsman."  The 
early  adoption  after  the  conquest  of  the  sur- 
name de  Clinton  by  the  Norman  founders  of 
the  family  in  England  indicates  the  pre-exis- 
tence  there  of  the  name  and  probably  the 
blood.  The  must  authentic  genealogists  of  the 
peerage — Dugdale  Collins,  and  others — trace 
the  ancestry  of  the  Clintons  to  the  ducal  house 
of  Normandy.  A  progenitor  was  William, 
Earl  of  Arques,  son  of  Richard,  second  Duke 
of  Normandy  (known  as  Richard  the  Good). 
William,  Earl  of  Arques,  had  a  daughter, 
Maud,  who  married  William,  Earl  of  Tancker- 
ville.  Of  their  grandsons  were  the  brothers 
Geoffrey  and  <  )sbert,  who,  established  in  Eng- 
land on  estates  inherited  from  their  father 
(  the  gift  of  his  kinsman,  the  Conqueror),  took 
the  surname  of  de  Clinton.  Geoffrey  de  Clin- 
ton the  elder  brother,  is  in  most  American  ac- 
counts of  the  ancestry  of  the  Clinton  family 
designated  as  the  founder  of  the  line,  but  this 
is  erroneous,  as  his  branch  soon  expired 
through  the  failure  of  male  succession.  He 
was  lord  chamberlain  and  treasurer  to  Henry 
[.,  and  afterward  chief  justice  of  England. 
The  manor  of  Kenilworth  in  the  county  of 
Warwick  was  bestowed  upon  him  by  the  king, 
and  he  built  the  great  and  strong  castle  of 
Kenilworth,  so  famous  in  English  history. 
He  married  Agnes,  daughter  of  Roger,  Earl 
of  Warwick,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 
Henry  de  Clinton.  The  latter  married  Amicia 
de  Bidun  and  had  a  son,  Henry  de  Clinton, 
who  died  without  issue  in  1233. 
(  English  Lineage.) 
(  I)  Osbert  de  Clinton,  brother  of  Geoffrey, 
left  four  sons:  Osbert,  Roger  (who  as  bishop 
of  Coventry  died  in  1148),  Hugh,  Maurice. 


(II)  Osbert  (2)  de  Clinton,  eldest  son 
Osbert  (1)  de  Clinton,  was  granted  the  lo 
ship  of  Coleshill  by  his  kinsman,  Geoffrey 
Cliiiton,  and  he  was  denominated  as  of  Col 
hill.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  \\ 
liam  de  Hatton,  who  was  the  son  of  Hui 
founder  of  the  priory  of  Wroxhall. 

(III)  Osbert  (3)  de  Clinton,  son  and  h 
of  Osbert  (2)  de  Clinton,  received,  in  ad 
tion  to  the  lordship  of  Coleshill  that  of  A 
ington  in  County  Warwick,  as  the  inheritai 
of  his  mother.  Living  in  the  reign  of  Jc 
he  was  one  of  the  insurgent  barons  w 
wrested  from  the  king  the  Magna  Charta. 
consequence  of  his  rebellion  his  lands  w< 
seized,  but  upon  the  accession  of  Henry  I 
(1216)  he  "made  his  peace"  and  they  w 
restored  to  him.  He  died  in  1223.  His  wif 
name  was  Elisant. 

(IV)  Thomas  de  Clinton,  son  and  heir 
Osbert  (3)  de  Clinton  and  his  wife  Elisa 
was  resilient  at  Amington  in  Warwickshi 
justice  of  assize  for  County  Warwick. 
married  Mazera,  daughter  and  heir  of  Jan 
de  Bisege,  of  Badsley,  Warwick,  and  had  f 
sons  :  Thomas,  mentioned  below  ;  Sir  John 
Clinton,  of  Coleshill:  Osbert  de  Clinton,  k 
of  the  manor  of  Austrey,  County  Warwi 
no  issue:  William  de  Clinton,  rector  of  A 
trey:  James  de  Clinton,  seated  at  Badsley, 
inheritance  of  his  mother,  which  to  the  pres* 
time  has  retained  the  name  of  Badsley  CI 
ton.  His  son  and  heir,  Thomas,  was  survh 
by  daughters  only — Joan,  who  married  (fir 
John  Coningsby,  and  (second)  John  Fowk 
and  Petronilla,  who  married  John  Woodwa 
of  Solihull   in  Warwickshire. 

(V)  Thomas  (2)  de  Clinton,  son  of  Thon 
(1)  and  Mazera  (de  Bisege)  de  Clinl 
(first  Baron  by  tenure),  married  Ma 
Bracebridge,  of  Kingsbury,  and  was  succeec 
by  his  sun. 

(VI)  John  de  Clinton,  son  of  Thomas  ( 
and  Maud  (Bracebridge)  de  Clinton,  resided 
Amington  and  later  at  Maxtock  Castle,  wh 
he  had  from  his  wife.  On  February  6,  12 
he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Bat 
Clinton.  In  1301  he  was  "specially  summor 
among  divers  great  men  to  attend  the  ki 
(  Edward  I.)  at  Berwick-upon-Tweed  on  Jt 
25,  the  feast  day  of  St.  John  the  Baptist, 
march  against  the  Scots,  at  which  time  1 
king,  invading  Scotland  with  his  royal  arr 
as  a  particular  badge  of  his  favor  to  him  : 


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lis  special  services  in  that  expedition,  called 
urn  his  beloved  Esquire.  He,  by  letters  patent 
lated  August  2,  at  Glasgow,  granted  him  lands 
n  that  kingdom  which  were  part  of  the  pos- 
essions  of  Malcolm  Dromond  (ancestor  of 
he  family  of  Perth),  then  in  arms  against 
dward."  In  1305  he  participated  in  another 
Scottish  expedition,  and  in  1308  by  the  king's 
pecial  command,  accompanied  Edward, 
frince  of  Wales,  to  Pronthieu.  During  the 
after  year  the  castle  and  honor  of  Wallingford 
vere  committed  to  his  keeping.  He  married 
da.  eldest  of  the  four  daughters  and  coheirs 
>f  Sir  William  de  Odingsells,  lord  of  Maxtock 
"astle  and  other  possessions  in  Warwickshire 
vhose  wife  was  Ela,  daughter  of  William 
Longspee  (second  of  that  name).  Earl  of 
Salisbury.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this  mar- 
age  :     John,  mentioned  below ;  William. 

(VII)  Sir  John  de  Clinton,  second  Baron 
Clinton,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Ida  (de  Oding- 
ells)  de  Clinton,  was  knighted  before  1325.  in 
vhich  year  he  was  returned  among  the  prin- 
ipal  knights  of  the  county  of  Warwick,  who 
>ore  ancient  arms  from  their  ancestors.  As  3 
>aron  of  the  realm  he  was  summoned  to  par- 
ianient.  In  1326  he  accompanied  John.  Earl 
)f  Warren,  in  the  expedition  for  the  relief 
)f  the  duchy  of  Guyen.  He  died  after  1333 
3e  married  Margery,  daughter  of  Sir  Wil- 
iam  Corbet,  of  Chadsley  Corbet  in  Worcester- 
;hire.  Children:  John,  mentioned  below; 
VTarv.  married  Baldwin  de  Mountfort.  of 
Zoleshill. 

(VIII)  Sir  John  de  Clinton,  third  Baron 
riinton,  son  of  John,  second  Baron  Clinton, 

,ind  Margery  (Corbet)  de  Clinton,  was  born 
326.  From  youth  he  fought  in  the  wars 
iinder  his  uncle,  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon, 
^ater  he  participated  in  the  glorious  French 
campaigns  of  Edward  the  Black  Prince,  and 
le  was  at  the  great  historic  battle  of  Poictiers 
^.r356.  Upon  his  return  to  England,  his 
rather  being  deceased,  he  was  summoned  to 
parliament  by  virtue  of  his  position  as  a 
jaron  of  the  realm.  In  the  French  military 
:xpeditions  of  Thomas  Beauchamp,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  Thomas  of  Woodstock,  and  several 
nthers  he  performed  conspicuous  services.  He 
.vas  the  Lord  Clinton  who,  as  observed  by 
Froissard,  in  the  English  invasion  of  Brittany 
'rode  with  his  banner  displayed  and  performed 
certain  feats  of  arms  at  Nantes  with  Sir 
lalovs   D'Aunoy."     When   Thomas   Beauch- 


amp, Earl  of  Warwick,  was  attainted  ami  ban- 
ished (1397),  the  custody  of  Warwick  Castle 
and  all  the  manors  and  lands  belonging  to  it 
was  confided  to  him.  He  died  September  8, 
1399.  He  married  (first)  Idonea,  eldest 
daughter  of  Jeffery,  Lord  Say,  and  grand- 
daughter, maternally,  of  Guy  Beauchamp,  Ear! 
of  Warwick.  She  was  coheir  with  her  brother, 
William,  Lord  Say,  cousin  and  heir  of  Wil- 
liam de  Say,  Baron  of  Sele.  As  the  result 
of  the  failure  of  male  issue  in  the  Say  line,  she 
became  the  eldest  coheir  of  this  noble  family, 
which  from  the  time  of  the  conquest  had  pro- 
duced men  of  distinction.  Children :  Cather- 
ine de  Clinton,  married  Thomas,  Lord  Berke- 
ley ;  Sir  William  de  Clinton,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Sir  Thomas  de  Clinton ;  Edward  de  Clin- 
ton, died  unmarried  1400.  Sir  John  de  Clin- 
ton, the  third  Lord,  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  and  at  length  heir  of  William 
de  la  Plaunch,  of  Haversham,  County  Buck- 
ingham (cousin  and  heir  of  Sir  Roger  Hillary, 
knight),  and  widow  of  Sir  Robert  Grey,  of 
Rotherfield,  knight.     No  issue. 

(IX)  Sir  William  Clinton,  eldest  son  of  Sir 
John,  third  Baron  Clinton,  and  Idonea  (Say) 
de  Clinton,  died  during  the  lifetime  of  his 
father.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Deincourt,  knight,  by  Alice  his 
wife,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Lord  John 
Nevile,  of  Raby,  and  sister  of  Ralph,  first  Earl 
of  Westmoreland. 

(X)  Sir  William  Clinton,  fourth  Baron 
Clinton,  eldest  son  of  Sir  William  and  Eliza- 
beth (Deincourt)  Clinton,  succeeding  his 
grandfather  in  the  estates,  title  and  arms,  was, 
like  his  ancestors,  summoned  to  parliament  as 
a  baron  of  the  realm ;  his  name  appears  in  this 
connection  continuously  from  1400  to  his 
death.  During  the  reigns  of  Henry  IV.  and 
Henry  V.,  and  a  portion  of  that  of  Henry  VI., 
much  of  his  time  was  engaged  in  the  wars 
After  serving  in  expeditions  to  Ireland  and 
Scotland,  he  took  part  in  the  campaigns  in 
France,  where  he  was  concerned  in  many  no- 
table sieges  and  engagements.  At  various 
times  he  was  "retained  by  indenture"  to  serve 
the  king  with  his  followers,  who  on  one  occa- 
sion consisted  of  thirty-eight  men  at  arms  and 
three  hundred  archers.  In  addition  to  his 
hereditary  dignity  of  Lord  Clinton,  he  bore 
the  title  of  Lord  Say  by  virtue  of  his  heirship 
to  William  de  Say  and  to  his  grandmother, 
Idonea.     His  landed  possessions,  as  enumer- 


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ated  by  Collins,  consisted  of  manors  and  ham- 
lets in  the  counties  of  Kent,  Sussex  and  War- 
wick, lie  died  July  30.  1432.  He  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Botreaux, 
and  widow   of  Sir  Fouke  Fitzwaryn,  knight. 

(XI  )  John  Clinton,  fifth  Baron  Clinton,  son 
of  Sir  William,  fourth  Baron  Clinton,  and 
Anne  (Botreaux)  Clinton,  was  born  about 
14 10.  In  1438  he  exchanged  with  Humphrey, 
Earl  of  Stafford,  his  castle  and  manor  of  Max- 
stock  for  the  manors  of  Whiston  and  Wood- 
ford in  County  Northampton.  To  his  kins- 
man, Sir  James  Fynes,  knight,  he  resigned,  in 
144M,  his  title  of  Lord  Say.  From  early  man- 
hood he  fought  valiantly  in  the  French  wars. 
In  1 44 1,  while  serving  in  the  retinue  of  Rich- 
ard, Luke  of  York,  he  was  taken  prisoner  by 
the  French  and  he  remained  in  captivity  for 
six  years,  when  he  bought  his  ransom  for  six 
thousand  marks.  Returning  to  England  he 
received  from  the  king  a  special  license  to  buy 
and  sell  wool  and  woolen  cloths  as  a  means  of 
reimbursing  himself.  He  was  one  of  the  no- 
bles (  1459)  who  revolted  against  Henry  VI. 
and  sustained  the  pretension  of  Richard,  Duke 
of  York,  to  the  throne.  He  was  consequently 
attainted  and  his  estates  were  seized,  but  upon 
the  accession  of  Edward  IV.  (Richard's  son) 
in  146]  his  property  was  restored  to  him.  He 
afterward  served  in  another  expedition  to 
France  and  in  a  successful  campaign  made  by 
Edward  against  the  Lancastrian  party  in  the 
north  of  England.  He  died  September  25, 
1464.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Richard  Fynes,  Lord  Dacre  of  Hurst-Mon- 
ceaux  in  Sussex. 

(XII)  John  Clinton,  sixth  Baron  Clinton, 
only  son  of  John,  fifth  Baron  Clinton,  and 
Elizabeth  (Fynes)  Clinton,  was  born  about 
1434.  died  February  20,  148S.  He  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Stafford. 

(XIII)  John  Clinton,  seventh  Baron  Clin- 
ton, son  of  John,  sixth  Baron  Clinton,  and 
Anne  (  Stafford  )  Clinton,  died  June  4.  1515  He 
was  with  Sir  Henry  Poynings  in  the  expedition 
in  aid  of  Margaret,  Duchess  of  Savoy,  against 
the  Duke  of  Guelders  and  in  15 14,  "with, 
divers  other  persons  of  honor  and  four  hun- 
dred men  at  arms,  went  over  to  Calais  for  the 
better  defense  of  that  garrison."  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Morgan, 
knight,  of  Tredegar,  Countv  Monmouth. 

(XIV)  Thomas  Clinton,  eighth  Baron 
Clinton,  son  of   John,  seventh  Baron  Clinton, 


and  Elizabeth  (Morgan)  Clinton,  was  bi 
14'n.  He  "succeeded  to  the  manor  of  Fol 
stone  in  Kent  with  other  large  possessions,  ; 
having  summons  to  parliament  took  his  pi 
among  the  barons  of  the  realm.  But  two  ye 
after  a  distemper  called  the  sweating  sickn 
raging  with  that  malignity  as  to  kill  in  th 
hours  divers  knights,  gentlemen,  and  offic 
of  the  king's  court,  the  Lord  Clinton  ; 
others  of  quality,  who  are  recited  by  L 
Herbert  in  his  life  of  Henry  VIII.  as  of 
king's  court,  died  thereof"  (August  7,  151 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Edw 
Poynings,  baronet  and  knight  of  the  Gartei 

(  XV  )  Edward  Clinton,  ninth  Baron  C 
ton  and  first  Earl  of  Lincoln,  son  of  Thon 
eighth  Baron  Clinton  and  Marv  ( Poynin 
Clinton,  was  born  1512.  His  career,  beginn 
in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.,  extended  throt 
the  reigns  of  Edward  VI.  and  Mary  I.  an 
portion  of  Elizabeth's;  and  under  all  th 
sovereigns  he  served  with  distinction  in  n 
tary,  naval  and  civic  employments,  becomi 
says  Collins,  "one  of  the  most  en  inent  pers 
this  nation  has  produced."  An  infant  at 
father's  decease,  he  was  reared  as  a  ward 
the  king  (Henry  VIII.)  and  received  a  a 
ful  and  polished  education  At  the  age 
twenty  he  attended  the  king  in  his  niemor: 
interview  with  Francis  I.  of  France  at  Sa 
ingfield  and  in  the  subsequent  entertainmc 
at  Boulogne  and  Calais.  Mention  of  him 
pears  frequently  in  connection  with  the  c 
cerns  of  the  court.  In  1 54 1,  "a  great  jc 
at  tourney  and  barriers  having  been  p 
claimed  in  France,  Flanders,  Scotland,  ; 
Spain  for  all  comers,  to  be  holden  at  W 
minster  May  1,  the  Lord  Clinton  was  the  tl 
of  the  forty-six  defendants  who  very  ric 
apparelled,  appeared  on  that  occasion,  wl 
continued  five  days,  the  king,  queen,  and  wl 
court  being  present." 

Having  at  an  early  age  conti  acted  an  i 
macy  with  John,  Viscount  of  Lisle,  Lord  H 
Admiral,  he  entered  the  naval  service, 
which  he  rose  rapidly  to  distinction.  He  ' 
with  the  fleet  which  in  1544  escorted  the  I 
of  Hertford,  general  of  the  army,  to  Si 
land,  and  after  the  successful  assault  on 
Canongate  he  was  the  first  of  those  who 
meritorious  conduct  received  the  honor 
knighthood.  The  fleet  then  scoured  the  co; 
of  Scotland  and  besieged  and  took  Bouloj 
of  which  he  was  made  governor;  and  in  c 


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junction  with  Lord  Lisle  he  was  a  witness  to 
the  resulting  agreement  signed  by  the  French 
king  to  observe  the  treaty  (June  7,  1546).  At 
the  funeral  of  Henry  VIII.  (1547)  he  was 
one  of  the  twelve  principal  peers  who  were 
appointed  chief  mourners.  After  the  accession 
of  Edward  VI.  he  was  appointed  admiral  of 
the  fleet  which  was  to  assist  the  Duke  of  Som- 
erset in  the  expedition  against  Scotland  for 
refusing  to  comply  with  the  treaty  that  pledged 
the  young  Mary  (Mary  Queer,  of  Scots)  to 
marry  King  Edward.  With  fifty  men-of-war 
and  twelve  galleys,  he  rode  into  Edinburgh 
Frith,  greatly  contributing  to  the  memorable 
victory  of  Musselborough  (September  10, 
1547).  On  his  return  he  was  the  object  of 
marked  evidences  of  favor,  being  granted  ex- 
tensive estates  in  the  County  of  Lincoln.  He 
was  next  sent  to  Boulogne  as  the  ablest  person 
to  defend  that  place  against  a  threatened  siege 
Dy  the  French.  This  trust  he  discharged  with 
signal  courage  and  skill,  only  surrendering  the 
own  when  ordered  to  do  so  by  the  king  and 
rouncil  pursuant  to  the  treaty  of  peace.  For 
lis  great  services  at  Boulogne  he  received  the 
Personal  thanks  of  the  king  and  council,  was 
nade  one  of  the  privy  council  and  a  lord  of 
he  bedchamber  with  the  title  of  Edward,  Lord 
Ilinton  and  Say,  was  appointed  for  life  lord 
nigh  admiral  and  chief  commander  of  the 
leets  and  seas,  and  was  endowed  with  numer- 
ous other  estates  and  manors.  On  April  24, 
[551,  he  was  elected  a  knight  of  the  Garter 
vith  Henry  II.,  king  of  France,  and  about  the 
;ame  time  he  was  appointed,  with  the  Earl  of 
Jutland,  lord  lieutenant  of  Lincolnshire  and 
Nottinghamshire.  Being  designated  to  receive 
he  embassy  (1552)  which  came  to  propose  a 
narriage  between  Edward  and  the  Lady  Eliza- 
beth of  France,  he  personally  conducted  the 
imbassadors  to  the  king.  Afterward  he  was 
:ent  on  a  special  mission  to  France,  bearing 
ostly  presents,  and  concluded  the  negotiations 
or  the  marriage.  Other  honors  which  he  en- 
oyed  under  Edward  were  those  of  sole  lord 
: lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Lincoln  and  gov- 
ernor of  the  Tower  of  London  During  the 
;  reign  of  Mary  I.  he  also  rendered  conspicuous 
■ervices,  retaining  his  previous  dignities.  He 
ifvas  present  at  the  marriage  of  that  sovereign 
(lo  Philip  of  Spain.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of 
:  par  in  1557  he  was  appointed  general  of  the 
.rniv,  and  subsequently  was  lieutenant-general 
iknd  chief  commander  of  the  fleet  and  forces 


against  France  and  Scotland.  He  was  in  chief 
command  of  the  military  and  naval  expedition 
against  Brest  in  1558.  During  the  same  year, 
becoming  involved  with  Lord  Stafford  in  a 
dispute  as  to  precedence,  the  matter  was  re- 
ferred to  the  peers,  and  after  an  exhaustive 
examination  of  all  the  records  it  was  decided 
"that  the  Lord  Clinton  had  place  next  above 
the  Lord  Audley  and  next  to  Lord  Abergave- 
ney,  and  that  he  was  the  second  lord  of  the 
realm  because  of  the  long  continuance  of  the 
Lords  Clinton  and  of  the  great  antiquity  of 
the  family,  and  that  the  Lord  Stafford  was 
eleventh  in  rank  or  order  of  precedence." 
When  Elizabeth  came  to  the  throne  in  1558 
she  appointed  him  privy  councillor  and'  con- 
tinued him  as  lord  high  admiral.  In  the  sixth 
year  of  her  reign  he  attended  her  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  and  there  received  the 
degree  of  master  of  arts  as  a  person  of  the 
highest  rank.  With  other  lords  he  was  ap- 
pointed during  the  eleventh  Elizabeth  to  "hear 
and  examine  matters  brought  against  the 
Queen  of  Scots  by  the  Earl  of  Murray,  regent 
of  Scotland."  In  conjunction  with  the  Earl 
of  Warwick  he  marched  against  the  rebellious 
Earls  of  Northumberland  and  Westmoreland 
(1569)  and  dispersed  their  forces.  In  recog- 
nition of  his  prolonged  and  eminent  services 
he  was  elevated  by  Elizabeth  to  the  peerage, 
May  4,  1572,  as  Earl  of  Lincoln.  The  next 
year,  "attended  by  a  great  train  of  noblemen," 
he  was  sent  to  France  to  receive  from  Charles 
IX.  the  ratification  of  the  treaty  of  Bloise. 
He  was  one  of  the  commissioners  named  by 
the  queen  to  treat  of  her  proposed  marriage 
to  the  Duke  of  Anjou.  He  died  January  16, 
1585.  "Always  of  unspotted  report,  specially 
for  allegiance,"  says  Hollinshead,  "and  there- 
fore singularly  beloved  in  his  life,  so  accord- 
ingly he  was  bemoaned  in  his  death."  He  was 
buried  in  the  south  isle  of  the  Chapel  of  St. 
George  in  Windsor.  The  tomb  is  a  sumptuous 
monument  of  alabaster,  with  pillars  of  por- 
phyry. The  Earl  "lies  in  armor  with  his  lady 
by  him,  in  full  proportions,  their  heads  on  a 
pillow  and  their  hands  uplifted  as  praying; 
on  one  side  three  sons  in  armor  kneeling,  and 
on  the  other  five  daughters  in  the  same  atti- 
tude." There  is  an  elaborate  Latin  inscrip- 
tion. 

He  married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Blount  and  widow  of  Gilbert,  Lord  Tal- 
boys.    She  was  known  as  "the  beautiful  Eliza- 


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beth  Blount."  Children:  I.  Bridget,  married 
Robert  Dymock,  Esq.,  of  Scrivelby,  County 
Lincoln.  2.  Catharine,  married  William,  Lord 
Brough.  3.  Margaret,  married  Charles,  Lord 
Willoughby  of  Parham.  The  Earl  married 
(second)  Ursula,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Stourton.  Children :  4.  Sir  Henry  Clinton, 
tenth  Lord  Clinton  and  second  Earl  of  Lin- 
coln. He  married  (first)  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Francis  Hastings,  Earl  of  Huntingdon. 
Two  sons,  of  whom  the  elder.  Thomas,  suc- 
ceeded as  third  earl ;  but  owing  to  ultimate 
failure  of  male  issue  in  the  line  ef  this  Thomas 
the  succession  to  the  earldom  finally  reverted 
to  the  descendants  of  his  younger  brother,  Sir 
Edward,  who  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Dighton,  Esq.,  of  Stourton,  county 
Lincoln.  A  descendant  of  this  Sir  Edward 
was  Henry  Clinton,  ninth  Earl  of  Lincoln ; 
married,  1744.  Catherine,  eldest  daughter  and 
heir  of  Rt.  Hon.  Henry  Pelham.  Her  uncle. 
Thomas  Pelham  Holies,  was  created  duke  of 
Newcastle-under-Lyme  on  the  17th  of  No- 
vember, 175'',  with  special  remainder  to  the 
Earl  of  Lincoln ;  and  upon  the  death  of  this 
Thomas,  first  duke,  in  1768,  Henry  Clinton, 
ninth  Earl  of  Lincoln,  succeeded  as  secon  1 
Duke  of  Newcastle-under-Lyme,  assuming  by 
royal  license  the  surname  of  Pelham — whence 
the  present  family  name,  Pelham-CHnton.  The 
head  of  this  house  is  now  Henry  Pelham 
Archibald  Douglas  Pelham-Clinton.  seventh 
Duke  of  Newcastle  and  fourteenth  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  born  September  ?8,  1864.  Another 
present  representative  is  Mr.  Charles  Staple- 
ton  Pelham-Clinton,  of  Moor  St.  Stoud,  Eng- 
land, born  1857.  giandson  of  the  fourth  duke. 
who  married,  in  1886,  Lizzie,  only  daughter 
of  Louis  di  Zerega,  of  New  York  City.  Re- 
curring to  the  Clinton  line  previous  to  the 
merging  of  the  earldom  of  Lincoln  in  the 
dukedom  of  Newcastle,  we  find  that  Francis 
Clinton,  sixth  Earl  of  Lincoln,  died  [693, 
aged  fifty-eight,  was  the  father,  by  his  sec- 
ond countess,  Susan,  daughter  of  Anthony 
Penniston,  Esq..  of  Hon.  George  Clinton, 
royal  governor  of  the  province  of  New  York 
from  174^  to  1753.  This  provincial  governor, 
George  Clinton,  who  died  July  10,  1761,  mar- 
ried Anne,  daughter  and  heir  of  Hon.  Peter 
Carle,  major-general,  their  onlv  surviving  son 
being  the  distinguished  Sir  Henry  Clinton, 
born  1738,  died  Decemher  23,  1705.  who  was 
Knight   of   the   Bath,  member  of  parliament. 


lieutenant-general,  and  commander-in-chief 
his  majesty's  forces  in  America  during  t 
revolutionary  war,  with  headquarters  in  Ni 
York  City.  It  was  he  who  led  the  brillia 
and  successful  expedition  against  Forts  CI: 
ton  and  Montgomery  on  the  Hudson  (177; 
defended  by  his  American  kinsmen,  Gene: 
James  Clinton  and  General  George  Clint 
(then  governor  of  the  State  of  New  Yorl 
Sir  Henry  left  descendants  in  England. 
Edward,  unmarried.  6.  Thomas,  mention 
below.  7.  Anne,  married  William  Ascouj 
son  and  heir  of  Sir  Francis  Ascough,  knij; 
of  Kclsy,  county  Lincoln.  8  Frances,  m; 
ried  Gvles  Bruges,  third  Lord  Chandos.  E 
ward  Clinton,  first  Earl  of  Lincoln,  marri 
(third)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gerald  Fi 
gerald,  ninth  Earl  of  Kildare,  and  widow 
Sir  Anthony  Browne,  knight.  This  was  1 
iady  celebrated  by  Henry.  Earl  of  Surrey, 
the  Fair  Geraldine.     No  issue. 

(XVI)  Sir  Thomas  Clinton,  third  son 
Edward,  ninth  Baron  Clinton  and  first  E 
of  Lincoln,  and  Ursula  Stourton.  inheril 
estates  in  Ireland;  in  1618  was  seated 
Dowdston  in'that  country.  He  married  Ma 
daughter  of  John  Tirrell,  Esq.,  of  Warley, 
county  Essex.  England.  Children :  Willia 
mentioned  below ;  Margery,  married  Jan 
Crelie,  of  the  Newry,  Ireland,  who  w 
drowned  at  Ringshead,  April  2,  1618. 

(XVII)  Sir  William  Clinton,  son  of  ! 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Tirrell)  Clinton,  like 
father,  resided  in  Ireland.  In  the  civil  w; 
he  supported  the  fortunes  of  Charles  I.  a 
was  an  officer  in  the  royalist  armies.  It  rr 
he  remarked  that  the  head  of  the  Clinton  hoi 
at    that    period,    Theophilus,    fourth    Earl 

1  incoln,  was  also  a  royalist,  and  for  his  1 
tivity  in  the  cause  his  estates  were  seiz 
.After  the  triumph  of  Cromwell.  Sir  Willi; 
Clinton  went  into  exile  on  the  continent,  1 
ing  in  France  and  Spain.  Later  he  was  i 
some  time  in  Scotland,  where  he  married, 
died  in  Glenwharry,  Ireland.  He  marr: 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Kennei 
Earl  of  Cassilis  in  the  Scotch  peerage,  kno' 
as  "the  grave  and  solemn  earl.''  Kennei 
and  the  Earls  of  Cassilis,  were  descended  fn 
Duncan  de  Carrick,  who  lived  in  the  reign 
Malcolm  TV.  of  Scotland  (beginning  ab< 
it 50).  The  grandson  of  Duncan,  Roland 
Carrick,  had  a  grant  of  the  country  of  C 
rick  from  Neil.  Earl  of  Carrick,  and  was  1 


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clared  chief  of  his  name,  this  grant  being 
confirmed  by  Alexander  III.  Sixth  in  descent 
from  Roland  was  Sir  John  Kennedy  (desig- 
nated as  son  of  Sir  Gilbert  de  Carrick  in  many 
writs),  who  had  a  confirmatory  charter  from 
David  II.  of  the  lands  of  Castlys,  county  Ayr, 
with  other  lands  which  came  to  him  from 
his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Neil  Mont- 
gomery. Descended  from  him  in  a  distin- 
guished line  was  Lord  David  Kennedy,  who 
was  created  Earl  of  Cassilis  by  James  IV., 
1509.  The  earldom  of  Cassilis  is  now  sub- 
ordinate to  the  marquisate  of  Ailsa,  Archi- 
bald Kennedy,  twelfth  Earl  of  Cassilis,  having 
been  created,  1831,  marquis  of  Ailsa.  This 
Archibald,  twelfth  earl,  was  the  son  of  Archi- 
bald, eleventh  earl,  who  married  (first)  Cath- 
erine Schuyler,  daughter  of  Peter  Schuyler 
of  New  Jersey,  and  (second)  Anne  Watts, 
daughter  of  Hon.  John  Watts  of  New  York 
(the  descent  being  through  the  second  mar- 
riage). Children  of  Sir  William  Clinton  and 
Elizabeth  Kennedy:  1.  Margaret,  married  John 
Parks ;  children :  John  Parks ;  Jane  Parks, 
married  John  Young ;  Barbara  Parks,  married 
John  Crawford.  2.  James,  mentioned  below. 
(Willi  James  Clinton,  son  of  Sir  Wil- 
iam  and  Elizabeth  (Kennedy)  Clinton,  was 
an  infant  at  his  father's  death.  He  was  born 
in  Ireland  and  continued  there,  residing  in 
county  Longford,  where  he  had  considerable 
estates.  A  portion  of  his  life  was  passed, 
however,  as  an  officer  in  the  military  service 
under  Queen  Anne  in  England,  where  he  made 
an  effort  to  recover  patrimonial  lands,  in  which 
he  was  unsuccessful  on  account  of  the  limita- 
tion of  an  act  of  parliament.  He  died  in 
county  Longford,  Ireland,  January  24,  1718. 
[He  married  Elizabeth  Smith,  of  an  English 
family,  daughter  of  William  Smith,  a  Crom- 
wellian  officer.  She  died  December  5,  1728. 
'Issue:  Christina,  Mary,  Charles,  mentioned 
below. 

(The  Family  in  America.) 
(I)  Charles  Clinton,  son  of  James  and  Eliza- 
beth (Smith)  Clinton,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  was  born  in  Ireland  about 
|i6go.  According  to  a  letter  brought  by  him 
to  America  from  Rev.  James  Bond,  pastor 
of  the  dissenting  (Presbyterian)  congregation 
at  Corbay,  county  Longford,  both  he  and  his 
wife  lived  "within  the  bounds"  of  that  con- 
gregation "from  their  infancy."  He  was  active 
and   prominent   in   the  affairs   of  the  church, 


occupying  the  position  of  ruling  elder.  After 
his  mother's  death  (1728)  he  made  prepara- 
tions for  removal  to  the  colonies  and  was  the 
leading  spirit  in  organizing  a  company  hav- 
ing for  its  object  the  founding  of  a  settlement. 
On  the  20th  of  May,  1729,  with  his  wife  and 
three  young  children,  his  two  sisters,  and  his 
associates,  he  sailed  from  Dublin  on  the  ship 
"George  and  Ann,"  bound  for  Philadelphia. 
The  party  numbered  ninety-four  persons,  in 
whose  behalf  he  paid  the  passage  money.  The 
voyage,  chronicled  in  his  diary,  which  is  now 
preserved  in  the  New  York  State  Library  in 
Albany,  was  one  of  the  most  unfortunate  and 
distressing  in  colonial  records.  There  was  a 
shortage  of  supplies,  the  vessel  was  over- 
crowded, and  many  died  of  disease  and 
famine,  including  two  of  Clinton's  children. 
It  was  not  until  October  4,  four  and  a  half 
months,  that  land  was  seen,  and  instead  of 
Philadelphia,  whither  the  emigrants  were 
destined,  they  were  put  ashore  on  Cape  Cod, 
the  master,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  man 
of  the  greatest  barbarity,  positively  refusing 
to  carry  them  further.  The  Clintons  passed 
the  winter  in  Massachusetts.  After  due  in- 
vestigation land  for  a  settlement  was  selected 
in  the  province  of  New  York  some  six  miles 
southwest  of  the  present  city  of  Newburgh. 
The  tract,  about  four  miles  square,  received 
the  name  of  Little  Britain,  also  being  called 
the  "precinct  of  the  Highlands."  Though 
within  a  short  distance  of  the  Hudson  river 
and  only  sixty  or  seventy  miles  from  New 
York  City,  it  was  wholly  unsettled,  "border 
land  to  the  Indians  "  In  a  petition  asking 
for  protection,  which  was  addressed  to  the 
colonial  legislature  after  this  period  by  some 
inhabitants  of  Ulster  county,  it  was  stated 
that  they  were  bounded  on  the  west  by  the 
desert,  where  only  the  wild  Indian  made  his 
home  and  grave.  Here  Clinton  and  his  com- 
panions from  Ireland  built  their  homes,  and 
the  country  being  fertile  and  salubrious,  grad- 
ually advanced  to  prosperity.  His  house  was 
very  strongly  constructed  as  a  frontier  post 
and  fortification  for  security  against  the 
Indians,  and  was  often  called  "the  fort."  From 
an  early  period  of  his  settlement  Clinton, 
known  for  energy  and  ability,  exercised  a 
marked  influence.  Being  a  proficient  surveyor 
and  mathematical  scholar,  he  was  employed  in 
various  important  matters  in  this  connection 
and  so  came  into  association  with  the  officials 


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of  the  provincial  government.  In  November, 
[736,  In-  joined  with  a  son  of  Governor  Cosby 
in  petitioning  for  ;i  grant  of  land  extending 
on  both  sides  of  the  Mohawk  river  around 
Fort  Stanwix.  He  was  appointed  in  1738 
clerk  <>f  a  military  organization  in  the  pre- 
cinct of  the  Highlands.  During  the  admin- 
istration <if  his  relative,  George  Clinton,  royal 
governor  of  New  York  from  1743  to  1753.  he 
formed  an  acquaintance  with  him  which  rip- 
ened into  intimacy  Continuing  his  identifica- 
tion with  the  militia,  he  was  promoted  to  lieu- 
i(ii, mi  colonel  ami  colonel,  and  in  175S  he  led 
in  person  a  regiment  againsl  the  French,  which 
marched  to  the  Mohawk  Valley  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Herkimer,  where  he  was  for  a 
time  in  command.  Soon  afterward  he  joined 
with  liis  forces  the  main  army  under  General 
Bradstreet  and  participated  in  the  taking  of 
Fort  Frontenac  on  Lake  Ontario,  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  and  important  events  of  the 
war.  In  this  campaign  he  was  near  seventy. 
Two  of  his  sons,  James  and  George,  were  of- 
ficers under  him,  the  former  as  captain,  the 
latter   as    lieutenant.      For   nianv    years   he   OC 

cupied  the  position  of  justice  of  the  peace 
In  17(1,1  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners 
named  to  settle  the  controversies  as  to  the 
New  Jersey  boundary  line  and  similar  vexed 
mailers  resulting  from  the  confusion  of  the 
old  Dutch  grants.  I  I  is  last  public  employment 
was  thai  of  county  judge  of  Ulster  county 
(17'xit.  lie  died  at  his  residence.  Little 
Britain,  New  York,  November  19,  177;*,.  In 
his  will  he  directed  that  he  he  buried  in  the 
graveyard  on  his  farm  beside  his  daughtet 
Catherine,  and  added  the  following  request: 
"That  my  executors  procure  a  suitable  stone 
to  lay  over  my  grave,  whereon  T  would  have 
the  lime  of  my  death,  my  age,  and  coat-of- 
arms  cut  I  hope  they  will  indulge  me  in 
(his  last  piece  of  vanity."  Charles  Clinton 
was  distinguished  for  dignity  and  refinement 
nf  manners,  purity  and  elevation  of  character. 
sincere  devotion  to  the  interests  of  religion, 
and  earnest  attachment  to  his  adopted  country, 
lie  lived  to  witness  the  events  which  fore- 
shadowed the  conflict  with  Great  Britain,  and 
his  dying  injunction  to  his  sons  was  to  main- 
tain the  liberties  of  America. 

lie  married,  in  Ireland,  Elizabeth  Dennis- 
ton,  born  about  1705.  died  December  25,  177Q. 
She  was  of  the  very  ancient  Scottish  family 
of   Dennistoun,    from   which    Robert    II.   was 


descended;  over  the  mantel  in  the  hall  of  tl 
ancestral  castle  were  inscribed  the  word 
"Kings  came  of  us,  not  we  of  kings."  A 
exceptionally  accomplished  and  intellige; 
lady,  she  gave  every  encouragement  to  hi 
husband  and  sons  in  their  various  activitie 
and  shared  in  their  patriotic  ardor.  Issue: 
Catherine,  Ik nn  in  Ireland,  .August  11,  172 
died  in  Little  Britain,  New  York,  Novembi 
28,  17(12  ;  she  married,  June  22,  174'J,  Capta 
James  McClaughry,  who  came  to  Amerii 
with  the  Clinton  party  in  1721;;  no  issue. 
James,  horn  in  172''.  died  on  the  passage  1 
America,  .August  28,  1721).  3.  Mary,  born  : 
Ireland,  July  11,  1728,  died  on  the  passag 
August  2,  1721).  4.  Alexander,  born  in  Litt 
Britain,  New  York,  April  28,  1732,  died  i 
Shawangunk,  New  York,  March  11,  1758;  1 
was  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  175 
studied  medicine  under  Dr  Peter  Middletc 
111  New  York  City,  and  practiced  his  profe 
sion  in  his  native  neighborhood;  no  issue. 
Charles,  horn  in  Little  Britain,  July  20,  173, 
died  April  3,  [791,  unmarried.  6.  James,  mei 
tinned  below.  7.  George,  born  in  Little  Britai: 
July  26,  [739,  lied  in  Washington,  D.  C 
April  20,    1812. 

(II)  James,  sixth  child  of  Charles  an 
Elizabeth  (Denniston)  Clinton,  was  boi 
August  9,  173(1,  in  Little  Britain,  Ulster  coui 
ty  (now  Orange  county),  New  York.  Durir 
his  entire  life  he  resided  in  his  native  localit' 
"With  a  hardy  and  vigorous  constitution,  a< 
customed  to  alarms  and  Indian  incursions,  X 
became  in  early  life  attached  to  the  professio 
of  arms,"  and  it  is  as  a  soldier  that  he  : 
chiefly  remembered.  In  1757,  at  the  age  c 
twenty-one,  he  was  commissioned  ensign,  an 
the  following  year  was  made  first  lieutenai 
with  power  to  enlist  troops  in  the  war  wit 
France.  He  commanded  a  company  of  hi 
father's  regiment  in  the  expedition  again: 
Fort  Frontenac  (  175X1,  and  with  his  brothe: 
George,  exhibited  an  intrepidity  in  the  resuli 
ing  attack  which  gained  him  great  credit.  O 
the  same  occasion  the  brothers  further  di< 
tinguished  themselves  by  the  capture  of 
French  vessel  on  Lake  Ontario,  (ontinuin 
in  the  army  until  the  peace  of  7763,  he  wa 
variously  employed  throughout  these  fiv 
years  as  an  officer  at  frontier  posts,  in  borde 
skirmishes,  and  in  enlisting  new  recruits  unde 
orders  from  the  colonial  governors,  achievin: 
a   high  reputation  for  soldierly  qualities,     ii 


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1763  he  organized  and  commanded  a  corps 
of  two  hundred  frontier  guards.  After  the 
war  he  resumed  the  duties  of  peaceful  life 
at  his  native  place,  but,  retaining  his  military 
enthusiasm,  was  active  in  promoting  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  local  militia,  in  which  he  was 
advanced  to  lieutenant-colonel.  In  the  devel- 
opments which  led  up  to  the  separation  of  the 
colonies  from  the  mother  country  he  took  an 
intense  interest,  and  his  name  appears  prom- 
inently in  the  early  movements  both  for  mili- 
tary and  civil  preparation  Afier  the  battle 
of  Lexington,  April  19,  1/75  he,  with  his 
brothers,  Dr.  Charles  and  George,  and  brother 
in-law,  Captain  McClaughry,  was  instrumental 
in  the  formation  of  the  committees  which  met 
at  New  Paltz  on  May  11.  He  was  one  of  the 
delegates  from  Ulster  county  to  the  first 
provincial  convention,  held  in  New  York  City, 
and  signed  the  strong  document  promulgated 
by  that  body  on  May  26.  Later  he  was 
conspicuous  in  circulating  the  "association" 
agreements  for  support  of  the  continental 
congress  and  in  organizing  forces.  On 
June  30,  1775,  he  was  unanimously  ap- 
pointed by  the  provincial  congress  colonel  of 
the  Third  New  York  Regiment ;  and  in  the 
fall  he  was  made  colonel  of  one  of  the  new 
regiments  which  had  been  raised  in  Ulster 
county.  With  a  portion  of  his  command  he 
accompanied  General  Montgomery  to  Canada, 
and  he  was  with  the  army  before  the  walls  of 
Quebec  when  that  heroic  leader  fell.  In  June, 
1776,  Colonel  Clinton  was  stationed  at  Fort 
Montgomery  on  the  Hudson.  Under  his 
supervision  the  works  there  and  at  the  neigh- 
boring Fort  Clinton  were  completed,  and  with 
great  energy  he  labored  to  put  them  and  their 
garrisons  in  readiness  for  defense.  Only 
scanty  munitions  being  sent  him,  he  manufac- 
tured his  own  powder  and  ball.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  brigadier-general  in  the  army  of  the 
United  States  in  August.  Possessing  the 
especial  confidence  of  General  Washington, 
who  regarded  the  security  of  the  Hudson  as  of 
the  verv  highest  importance,  he  was  continued 
in  the  command  at  Fort  Montgomery. 
The  next  year  occurred  the  memorable 
descent  of  Burgoyne's  army  from  Canada, 
the  prime  object  of  this  invasion  being 
the  mastery  of  the  Hudson,  which  if  realized 
would  have  isolated  New  England  and 
have  prevented  all  future  conjunction  be- 
tween the  eastern  and  western  colonies.     At 


the  same  time  that  Burgoyne  advanced  from 
Canada,  Howe,  the  British  commander  in  New 
York,  sailed  with  a  formidable  expedition  for 
Philadelphia,  thus  engaging  the  main  Ameri- 
can army  under  Washington  in  that  quarter. 
Thereupon  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  Howe's  suc- 
cessor in  New  York,  proceeded  to  carry  out 
that  very  vital  part  of  the  British  plans  which 
involved  forcing  the  defenses  of  the  lower 
Hudson  and  effecting  a  junction  with  Bur- 
goyne. On  the  4th  of  October,  1777,  Sir 
Henry  embarked  his  forces,  some  four 
thousand  men,  at  New  York,  sailed  up  the 
Hudson,  and  landed  at  Verplanck's  Point  be- 
low Peekskill  in  Westchester  county.  Peeks- 
kill  was  at  that  time  the  headquarters  of  the 
military  district  of  the  Highlands,  which  com- 
prehended Forts  Montgomery  and  Clinton. 
The  command  of  the  district  was  held  by 
General  Israel  Putnam  at  Peekskill,  subor- 
dinate to  him  being  the  brothers,  General 
(Governor)  George  Clinton  at  Fort  Mont- 
gomery and  General  James  Clinton  at  Fort 
Clinton.  (In  the  very  grave  military  situation 
Governor  George  Clinton  had  deemed  it  his 
duty  to  take  the  field  in  person,  and  had  come 
to  the  support  of  his  brother  in  the  Highland 
forts.)  General  Putnam,  at  Peekskill,  mis- 
apprehended Sir  Henry's  object,  supposing  it 
was  to  attack  his  main  position  in  force,  and 
he  not  only  neglected  to  strengthen  the  Clinton 
brothers  in  the  forts,  but  even  sent  to  them 
for  troops.  In  the  night  the  British  com- 
mander transferred  some  three  thousand  of 
his  men  to  the  west  bank  of  the  river,  leaving 
the  remainder  of  Verplanck's  Point  to  con- 
tinue the  ruse.  Everything  worked  to  his  sat- 
isfaction :  Putnam  still  thought  the  objective 
of  the  enemy  was  Peekskill,  and  it  is  said  that 
though  he  received  early  intelligence  of  the 
passage  of  a  body  of  the  British  to  the  other 
:-ide,  he  concluded  this  was  only  a  detachment ; 
certain  it  is  he  took  no  measure  to  reinforce 
the  brothers,  for  which  he  had  ample  time  after 
hearing  of  the  new  movement.  On  the  morn- 
ing of  October  5,  the  three  thousand  British 
who  had  landed  on  the  west  side  took  up  the 
difficult  march  northward  through  the  moun- 
tain passes.  About  five  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon they  arrived  in  the  vicinity  of  the  forts, 
and,  surrender  being  refused,  divided  into  two 
columns  and  stormed  them  from  the  rear.  The 
forces  under  the  brothers  did  not  exceed  five 
hundred,   but  a   terrific   resistance  was   made 


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which  lasted  till  after  nightfall,  when  the 
overwhelming  power  of  numbers  prevailed.  In 
the  fight  General  James  Clinton  suffered  a 
severe  bayonet  wound.  The  last  to  leave  Fort 
Clinton,  he  escaped  down  a  precipice,  one 
hundred  feet  high,  fronting  the  river,  and 
made  his  way  to  his  home  at  Little  Britain. 
The  governor  crossed  in  a  rowboat  to  the  op- 
posite shore.  The  taking  of  the  Highland 
fcirts  was  one  of  the  most  sensational  events 
of  the  revolution,  standing  as  much  to  the 
credit  of  the  British  general  who  planned  and 
executed  the  enterprise  as  did  the  subsequent 
capture  of  Stony  Point,  a  few  miles  below, 
to  that  of  the  American  General  Wayne.  Sir 
Henry  Clinton,  having  an  unobstructed  path 
before  him  (West  Point  had  not  then  been 
built.)  immediately  marched  to  assist  Bur- 
goyne,  but  was  too  late,  and  so,  after  burning 
Kingston  and  committing  other  ravages,  re- 
turned to  New  York.  Forts  Montgomery  and 
Clinton  were  demolished  and  never  recon- 
structed. For  this  disastrous  affair  Putnam 
was  sharply  criticised  but  the  conduct  of  the 
Clinton  brothers  was  regarded  by  both  Wash- 
ington and  congress  with  unmixed  approba- 
tion. Against  odds  of  six  to  one  their  situation 
was  hopeless  unless  reinforced;  but  as  help 
might  still  come  from  Putnam,  and  as  in  any 
case  it  was  their  duty  to  maintain  the  honor  of 
the  American  arms,  they  made  a  desperate 
defense,  prolonging  it  in  sheer  heroism  until 
further  fighting  could  have  had  no  other  issue 
than  the  mere  massacre  of  their  little  remnant 
After  recovering  from  his  wounds.  Genera! 
James  Clinton  returned  to  the  army  and  was 
stationed  at  the  new  post  of  West  Point  on 
the  Hudson.  As  a  result  of  the  Wyoming 
and  Cherry  Valley  massacres  it  was  decided  to 
dispatch  a  strong  expedition  against  the 
Indians.  To  the  details  of  this  matter  Wash- 
ington gave  very  particular  attention,  and  the 
preservation  among  lames  Clinton's  papers  of 
the  original  letter  of  the  commander-in-chief 
shows  that  it  was  referred  to  him  General 
Sullivan  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  expedi- 
tion, with  Clinton  second  in  command.  Tn 
June.  1770,  Clinton  moved  with  his  division 
of  two  thousand  from  Albany,  proceeded  up 
the  Mohawk  Valley,  crossed  to  Lake  Otsego, 
and  there  embarked  in  two  hundred  and 
eighteen  boats  which  had  been  carried  over- 
land with  great  labor.  At  the  lower  extremity 
of  the  lake,  where  it  has  its  outlet  in  the  east- 


ern branch  of  the  Susquehanna  river — ordin- 
arily an  unnavigable  stream — he  built  a  dam, 
elevating  the  water  several  feet.  Men  were 
sent  ahead  to  clear  the  river  of  driftwood,  the 
flood  was  released,  and  the  troops  rode  quickly 
and  safely  down,  reaching  the  point  of  ren- 
dezvous in  the  Susquehanna  Valley  before 
the  main  army.  On  the  29th  of  August,  Sul- 
livan having  arrived,  the  united  forces  en- 
countered the  Indians  at  Newtown  (now  El- 
mira,  New  York),  and  completely  defeated 
them.  The  object  of  the  campaign  being  re- 
tributive, an  extensive  march  was  then  made 
through  the  country  of  the  '  (nondagas,  Cayu- 
gas  and  Senecas,  which  was  thoroughly  laid 
waste,  villages,  stores  and  crops  being  de- 
stroyed.  This  was  one  of  the  most  comprehen- 
sive and  successful  expeditions  ever  under- 
taken against  the  savages.  Years  afterward 
General  Clinton,  revisiting  the  scene,  was  re- 
membered by  the  chiefs  of  the  tribes  and  was 
offered  large  donations  of  land  ( which  he 
declined  )  because  of  their  admiration  for  him 
as  a  brave  man.  In  17S0,  after  the  treason  of 
Arnold,  Washington  wrote  to  Clinton,  then  at 
West  Point:  "As  it  is  necessary  there  should 
be  an  officer  in  whom  the  state  has  confidence 
to  take  the  general  direction  of  affairs  at  Al- 
bany and  on  the  frontier,  I  have  fixed  upon 
you  for  this  purpose,  and  request  you  will 
proceed  to  Albany  without  delay  and  assume 
command."  He  administered  this  post — the 
northern  department — ver\  efficiently  until 
August.  1781,  when,  with  his  troops,  he  joined 
Washington  and  accompanied  him  in  the  York- 
town  campaign.  It  was  his  brigade  which 
received  the  colors  of  the  British  army  at  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis.  Afterwards  he  was 
for  several  months  in  command  of  the  Ameri- 
can forces  at  Pompton,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
one  of  the  distinguished  officers  present  at  the 
evacuation  of  New  York  in  November,  1783. 
LJpon  bis  retirement  from  the  army  he  held  the 
rani-:  of  major-general. 

The  remainder  of  his  life  was  for  the  most 
part  passed  in  the  privacy  of  his  home,  al- 
though on  several  occasions  he  was  summoned 
to  the  public  service  in  honorable  position. 
Tn  T784  he  was  appointed  regent  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  was 
a  delegate  to  the  famous  Poughkeepsie  con- 
vention of  178S.  held  to  consider  the  United 
States  constitution,  and  strongly  supported  his 
brother  in  opposition  to  that  instrument ;  but 


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after  its  ratification  he  defended  it  with  his 
accustomed  sincerity  and  energy.  At  various 
times  he  was  a  member  of  the  assembly  and 
state  senate,  and  he  also  was  a  commissioner 
on  the  New  Jersey  boundary  and  sat  in  the 
convention  of  1S01  which  revised  the  state 
constitution.  He  died  in  Little  Britain,  New 
York,  December  22,   181 2. 

In  person  General  Clinton  was  one  of  the 
most  striking  individualities  of  his  times — of 
commanding  stature  and  powerful  physique, 
finely  proportioned,  and  with  features  of  re- 
markable beauty,  indicative  of  the  greatest 
dignity,  resolution  and  candor.  As  a  military 
leader  he  was  above  all  distinguished  by  ef- 
ficiency— self-possessed  amid  the  most  serious 
dangers,  a  firm  disciplinarian,  and  absolutely 
loyal  to  every  trust.  These  qualities  led  to 
his  constant  employment  by  Washington  in 
responsible  commands  on  the  Hudson  river, 
where  unquestionable  reliability,  incessant 
alertness,  and  administrative  vigor  were  the 
prime  requirements.  On  the  other  hand,  his 
campaign  of  I/7Q  to  the  Indian  country,  in- 
'olving  an  extraordinarily  toilsome  march  and 
a  delicate  engineering  feat,  executed  with  pre- 
cision of  detail  and  surprising  dispatch,  dem- 
onstrates that  as  a  field  commander  he  also 
possessed  exceptional  abilities.  His  son.  Gov- 
ernor De  Witt  Clinton,  in  a  tribute  to  his 
character  said :  "He  was  a  rood  man  and  a 
sincere  patriot,  performing  in  the  most  ex- 
emplary manner,  all  the  duties  of  life,  and  lie 
died  as  he  had  lived,  without  fear  and  without 
reproach." 

He  married  ( first)  February  r8,  1765,  Marv 
(baptized  Maria)  De  Witt,  only  daughter  of 
Egbert  De  Witt,  of  Naponach,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  and  Mary  (Nottingham)  De  Witt. 
Her  ancestry  was  as  follows :  Tjerck  Claesen 
De  Witt,  from  the  Netherlands :  married,  in 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  New  Amster- 
dam. April  24,  1656,  Barbara  Andriessen ; 
fourteen  children,  of  whom  the  eldest  was 
Andries  De  Witt,  born  in  New  Amsterdam, 
1657.  died  July  22,  1710;  lived  for  some  years 
in  Marbleton,  New  York,  later  removing  to 
Kingston ;  married,  March  7,  1682.  Jannetje 
Eghertsen.  daughter  of  Egbert  Meindertse  and 
Jaepe  Tans  ;  twelve  children,  the  tenth  of  whom 
was  Egbert  De  Witt,  born  March  18.  ifioq; 
lived  in  Naponach.  Ulster  county,  married, 
November  a.  1726.  Marv  Nottingham,  daugh- 
ter, of  William  and  Margaret  (Rutsen)   Not- 


tingham ;  nine  sons  and  one  daughter,  Mary 
De  Witt,  married  James  Clinton,  mentioned 
above.  Issue  of  James  and  Mary  (De 
Witt)  Clinton :  1.  Alexander,  born  in  Deer- 
park,  Orange  county,  New  York,  1765, 
drowned  in  the  Hudson  river,  March  15,  1787; 
he  served  as  lieutenant  in  Colonel  Lamb's  regi- 
ment of  artillery  during  the  revolution,  and 
was  for  a  time  private  secretary  to  his  Uncle 
George ;  unmarried.  2.  Charles,  mentioned  be- 
low. 3.  De  Witt,  governor  of  New  York,  etc., 
born  in  Little  Britain,  March  2,  1769,  died  in 
Albany,  New  York,  February  11,  1828.  4. 
George,  born  July  6,  1771.  5.  Mary,  born 
July  20,  1773;  married  (first)  Robert  Burrage 
"Norton,  (second)  Judge  Ambrose  Spencer;  no 
issue.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  January  15,  1776; 
married  Lieutenant  William  Stuart,  who 
served  in  the  revolutionary  army ;  seven  chil- 
dren. 7.  Katherine.  born  September  24,  1778. 
died  1837;  married  (first)  Samuel  Lake  Nor- 
ton, brother  of  Robert  Burrage  Norton,  her 
sister  Mary's  first  husband ;  no  issue ;  married 
(second)  Judge  Ambrose  Spencer,  her  sister's 
widower.  General  James  Clinton  married 
(second)  Mrs.  Mary  (Little)  Gray,  widow 
of  Alexander  Gray.  She  was  born  in  county 
Longford,  Ireland.  August  22,  1768,  died  in 
Newburgh,  Orange  county,  New  York,  June 
22.  1835.  Issue:  8.  James,  died  young.  9. 
Caroline  H.,  born  March  27.  1800;  married 
Tudge  Charles  A.  Dewey,  of  Northampton, 
Massachusetts,  to.  Emma  L.,  born  February, 
1802,  died  July  6,  1823 ;  unmarried.  11.  James 
Graham,  born  January  2,  1804,  died  May  28, 
1S49,  "Honored,  loved,  lamented."  12.  Leti- 
tia,  born  April  12,  1806.  died  April  23.  1842, 
aged  thirty-six ;  married  Dr.  Francis  Bolton ; 
children:  Thomas  Bolton,  died  young;  James 
Clinton  Bolton,  lawyer  in  New  York ;  married 
Laura  Tallmadge.  13.  Anna,  born  July  26, 
1809,  died  December  11,  1833.  aged  twenty- 
four  ;  married  Lieutenant  Edward  Ross,  of 
the  United  States  army. 

(Ill)  Charles  (2),  second  son  of  James  and 
Mary  (De  Witt)  Clinton,  was  born  February 
18,  1767,  in  Little  Britain,  and  died  in  New 
York  City,  April  20,  1829.  He  prepared  for 
the  practice  of  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  gave  much  of  his  time  to  his  profession. 
He  had  a  particular  taste  for  surveying,  in 
which  he  was  very  skillful  and  devoted  consid- 
erable time  to  that  occupation.  His  home  was 
in  Newburgh,  New  York,  where  he  filled  vari- 


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ous  pos  ■         trust  and  n  y.     In 

strict   in   th< 
ily.      He    married,    in    17110.    Eli;  . 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary   (Dennis 

•    Little   Britain,   born   there   April 
27,   177  5,  186-  N'ew  York 

Iren  :  Maria,  born  Mare':;  26,   1791, 
.  Jr. ;  Alexander,  men- 
tioned below. 

(  1  \ 
(.diaries    (2)    and.  Mullmeri    Clin- 

ton,  v  ;.   in   Xewburgh, 

and    died    February    16,    1878,    in    Xew    York 
City.      He   studied    medicine   and    engaged    in 
ice.     He  joined  the  Uniti       ?        -  army 
:    lieutenant 
1  le  married    \d(  I  lamihon.   . 

ter  of  Captain  Jar  Ham- 

ilton, native-;  of  Scotland.     Captain  Hamilton 
descendant    of   the   ancient    family  of 
that  rwick. 

Elizabeth,     married     John 
ander,  oi  Rleecker;  Adi  '        n,  wife 

of  Thomas  E.  Brov         '  ?.  many 

surance 
Company,    of    Xew    York    1  Eliza. 

Mrs    Thomas    A.    Wilmerding;   Charles   Wil- 
liam. I  tti    '      i    Xew    York    Cit) 
Do  V                      tied  below  . 

De  Witt,  third  son  of  Dr.   Alexander 
and   AdeliiK  .  was 

born  July  5.  1835,  in  Xow  York  City      He  re- 
ceived hi-  education  in 
native  8 

member  oi  the   Xew    x  -  iiange 

and   is  now   retired    from   active  business,   re- 
siding in  Ri 

affiliated    with    any    religious    bod\ 
the  first  thirty  three  years  of  his  life  his  home 

S6!3         Sq7 

whence  he  removed  to  Ridgewood.     Polit 

ed  a  term 
listmenl    in   the   Seventh   Regiment   National 
Guard.  State  of  Xew  York    during  the  period 
of  the  civil  war  a  ft  riots,     lie  was 

hurch,  Xew  York  City 
iber   25,    18 
Bumham,  born    Kugusl         ?  New  York 

Cit> .  died  a(   Rids  N    ■■  Tanu- 

of    Michael    and    lane 
(Cart.  • 

-  born   August   1 1. 


Xew  York,  died  at  Xorwalk.  Connecti- 
cut. July  23,  18(14:  De  Witt,  mentioned  below; 
Sig   urney,  born   September   14.     -    7 
in    Xew    York:   Roland   Burnham,  mentioned 
.  Elizabeth  Sigourney  born  December  13, 
1880.  at  South  Orange.   Xew    Jersey. 

(YI)   De  Witt  (2),  second  son  of  De  Witt 

and     Elizabeth     Sigourney     (  Burnham) 

Clinton,  was  born   October  23,   1804.  in    Xew 

He   attended   private   schools   in 

South  Orange.  Xew   Jersey      He  is  connected 

in  business  with  the  firm  of  Clinton  &  Russell, 

■  :th  offices  in  Liberty  street.  New 

Vork  City,  practicing  architecture.     He  is  also 

al  musician  and  church  organist, 

of  various  choruses  and 

church  choirs,  tin  .  s  nnected  otherwise 

with  any  religious  organization.     He  is  a  111cm- 

the  Architectural  League  of  New  York, 

e  Manhattan  Single  Tax  Club  and  Sun- 

lub  oi  the  same  city.     He  has  long  cn- 

actively   in  the  single  tax  propaganda, 

and  other  economic  ami   social  reform  work, 

and  i-  politically  ir  I      He  was  reared 

ge,  Nev  ,  resides 

at  Ridgewood.  same  -'.ate. 

of   De 
Witt  (  1  )  and  Eli;  -         nicy  (  Burnham) 

v~^         South 
._    .  Xew  Jersey.     He  attended  public  and 
that  place.     Since  attaining 
manhood  his  time  has  been  devoted  principally 
to   literary  work.     IL  nected  with 

any    r<  tion,   and    i-   politically 

v  is  now  at  Ridgewood, 
Xew  Jersey/,  where  be  was  married.  November 
8.  Kin.  to  Pauline  1.    Provi  Novem- 

ber 2.   1887,  in   Xew   \  g\  :er  of 

-   Edwin  and  S  '  '  tes")    Pro- 

They  have  one  son  ■  De  Witt   Provine 
bom  October   18.   10.12.  in  Brooklyn. 
Xew  York. 


In    preparing   the    gene- 
FLOYD-JONES     alogy     of    'the     F 

Jones  family  it  becomes 
necessary  to  take  into  consideration  two  fam- 
ilies which  for  centuries  have  been  of  forc- 
inl  in  the  State  oi  Xew  York,  and 
with  an  influence  much  wider.  For  genera- 
tions the  Jones  family,  settled  on  Long  Island, 
ntributed  a  line  of  distinguished  legisla 
tors  and   jurists,  and  has  maintained  promin- 


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nee  in  political  life  under  both  British  and 
Lmerican  rule.  The  Floyd  family  was  among 
lose  of  this  state  which  were  held  in  esteem 
efore  the  revolution,  gained  distinction  at 
lat  period,  and  since  then  its  members  have 
ivariably  been  worthy. 
The  line  of  descent  to  he  considered  here 
traced  separately  through  the  Floyd  and 
ones  families.  In  the  year  1757  they  were 
nited  by  an  important  intermarriage,  and  the 
nited  strains  became  known  as  Floyd-Jones 
y  the  legislative  enactment  of  1788.  which 
nabled  Colonel  David  Richard  Floyd  to  add 
tie  name  of  Jones  to  his  surname,  hence  he 
nd  all  of  his  descent  since  then  to  the  present 
ay  have  borne  the  name  Floyd-Jones.  As 
be  male  line  was  that  of  the  Floyd  family,  at 
ntion  will  first  be  paid  to  it. 

(I)  Colonel  Richard  Floyd  was  the  first  of 
his  family  in  America.  He  was  born  about 
620.  and  was  a  native  of  Brecknockshire, 
Vales.     He  came  to  this  country  in  1656,  set- 

;  in  Setauket,  Long  Island.  There  he  be- 
ame  one  of  the  fifty-five  original  proprietors 
f  Brookhaven,  was  made  a  justice,  and  ap- 
lointed  a  colonel  of  the  Suffolk  militia  com- 

>anv.     His  wife.  Susanna  .  was  born  in 

626.  and  died  in  1700.     They  had  one  child, 
imo  bore  the  name  of  its  father. 

(II)  Colonel  Richard  (2)  Floyd,  son  of 
Colonel  Richard  (1)  Floyd  and  his  wife  Sus- 
nna.  was  born  May  12.  1661.  and  died  Febru- 
ry  28,  1737.  He  was  appointed  county  colonel 
n  the  days  when  King  William's  war  made 
roubled  times,  and  by  the  grace  of  Anne  be- 
■ame  a  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas. 
-Ie  married,  September  in.  1686,  Margaret, 
laughter  of  Colone'  Matthias  Nicoll,  secre- 
ary  of  New  York  colony,  and  many  years 
udge  of  Suffolk  county,  and  his  wife  Abigail, 
vlarsjaret  Nicoll  was  horn  in  1662  and  died 
n  1718  The  inscription  upon  Colonel  Floyd's 
ombstone.  still  in  a  state  of  preservation  at 
Setauket.  Long  Inland,  reads :  "Here  lies  ye 
>ody  of  Richard  Floyd.  Esqre..  late  Collone! 
)f  this  County,  and  n  Judge  of  ye  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  who  deed.  Febrv  28,  1737,  in 
re  73  year  of  his  age."  Chil  Iren  :  1.  Susannah. 
>orn  1688 ;  married  Edmund  Smith,  son  of 
\dam,  son  of  Richard,  of  the  "Bull"  Smith 
family  of  Smithtown.  2.  Margaret,  born  1690; 
narried  Rev.  John  Thomas,  of  Hempstead.  3. 
Zharity.  born  1692,  died  in  1758;  married 
(first)  Benjamin  Nicoll;  (second)  Dr.  Samuel 


Johnson.  4.  Eunice,  born  1694;  married  Wil- 
liam Stephens.  5.  Ruth,  born  1699;  married 
Walter  Dongan.  6.  Richard,  born  1703  (see 
forward").  7.  Nicoll,  born  1705,  died  1752; 
married  Tabitha  Smith. 

(III)  Colonel  Richard  (3)  Floyd,  son  of 
Colonel  Richard  (2)  Floyd  and  Margaret 
Nicoll,  was  born  December  29,  1703,  and  died 
April  21,  1 77 1.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hut- 
chinson, born  in  1709,  died  in  1778,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Martha  Hutchinson,  large 
property  owners  bordering  on  Long  Island 
sound.  Children  :  Richard,  of  whom  further  ; 
Elizabeth  ;  John  ;  Margaret ;  Benjamin  ;  Gil- 
bert ;  William  ;  Samuel ;  Mary  ;  Anna. 

(IV)  Colonel  Richard  (4)  Floyd,  son  of 
Colonel  Richard  (3)  and  Elizabeth  (Hutchin- 
son) Floyd,  was  born  February  26,  1731,  and 
died  February  6,  1791.  He  settled  upon  the 
estate  left  to  him  by  his  father  at  Mastic,  Suf 
folk  county.  Long  Island,  where  he  was  re 
garded  by  all  as  the  most  generous  man  who 
had  ever  resided  within  that  county.  He  en- 
tertained all  ranks  of  neighbors  not  only 
courteously  but  cordially,  and  sustained  the 
reputation  of  keeping  the  most  hospitable  table 
on  the  entire  island.  Needless  to  say.  these 
characteristics  of  his  nature  made  him  num- 
erous friends  and  precluded  enemies.  To  the 
poor  he  likewise  extended  unstinted  generosity, 
and  all  those  in  distress  lived  to  revere  his 
memory  as  their  best  friend.  He  was  a  Tory 
of  the  deepest  dye  throughout  the  revolution, 
and  became  one  of  the  proscribed  individuals 
who  came  under  the  Act  of  Attainder.  For 
this  reason  he  was  obliged  to  leave  the  country 
in  order  to  save  any  portion  of  his  valuable 
property.  The  remainder,  including  the  fine 
family  place  at  Mastic,  Long  Island,  was  con- 
fiscated, and  his  wife  fortunately  succeeded 
to  the  property  bequeathed  bv  her  father 
Colonel  Richard  Floyd  was  also  related  to 
General  Nathaniel  Woodhull,  of  the  American 
army,  who  married  Ruth  Floyd,  first  cousin  of 
Richard,  and  they  were  near  neighbors  at 
Mastic.  The  battle  of  Long  Island  was  fought 
August  27,  1776.  in  which  the  British  arms 
were  victorious.  Nathaniel  Woodhull  was  ap- 
pointed brigadier-general  and  commander-in- 
chief  of  all  the  militia  on  Long  Island.  Before 
he  reached  Jamaica,  with  less  than  one  hun- 
dred men.  the  battle  was  decided,  so  he  re- 
mained there  at  an  inn  kept  by  a  man  named 
Carpenter,  about  two  miles  east  of  the  village. 


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for  reinforcements,  which  he  could  not  get,  as 
the  American  army  had  escaped  from  Long 
Island,  leaving  the  enemy  in  possession.  The 
British  received  information  where  he  was, 
and  surrounded  the  house,  making  him  and  all 
his  party  prisoners.  This  happened  on  the 
night  of  August  28,  1776,  and  not  a  gun  was 
fired.  The  general,  favored  by  darkness,  at- 
tempted to  escape;  but  being  discovered  by 
sentries  while  attempting  to  get  over  a  fence, 
he  received  a  number  of  strokes  from  their 
swords,  particularly  a  severe  one  upon  the 
arm.  He  was  carried  aboard  a  man-of-war, 
and  treated  with  hospitality.  The  surgeons 
advised  amputation,  but  he  would  not  give  his 
consent,  and  heme  the  wound  mortified,  caus- 
ing his  death,  which  occurred  September  20, 

177" 

Colonel  Richard  Floyd  married,  November 
2,  1757,  Arabella  Jones,  born  December  7, 
1734,  died  May  2<),  1785.  daughter  of  Judge 
David  Junes  and  Anna  Willett.  The  judge 
amassed  a  fortune  of  considerable  size,  being 
;i  large  property  owner  on  Long  Island.  His 
daughter  Arabella  thus  became  wealthy  by 
inheritance,  and  through  her  issue  the  property 
was  to  descend  provided  a  child  of  hers  would 
carry  down  the  name  of  Jones.  In  order  to 
take  the  best  of  care  of  the  will  of  her  father, 
in  1783  she  desired  Ruth  Woodhull,  widow 
of  the  general,  to  take  care  of  it.  The  will  was 
delivered  to  her  by  Mrs.  Floyd  sealed  in  a 
paper,  with  the  declaration  that  it  was  the  will 
of  Judge  David  Jones.  This  was  placed  in  a 
sealskin  trunk  by  Mrs.  Woodhull  -for  safe- 
keeping with  the  will  of  General  Woodhull ;  but 
on  April  5,  1784,  Mrs.  Woodhull's  house 
caught  fire  and  the  trunk,  with  its  valued  con- 
tents, was  destroved.  Colonel  Richard  Floyd 
left  his  home  on  Long  Island  in  1783,  for  Con- 
necticut, and  from  there  went  to  Nova  Scotia. 
He  died  at  Maugerville,  New  Brunswick,  June 
30,  1791,  where  he  was  buried.  His  wife  was 
buried  at  Mastic,  Long  Island.  Children:  1. 
Elizabeth,  born  August  8,  1758,  died  May  7, 
1820;  married,  September  28,  1785,  John  P. 
De  Lancey.  2.  David  Richard,  born  November 
14,  T7'>4,  later  known  as  David  Richard  Floyd- 
Jones  (see  forward).  3  Anne  Willett,  born 
August  17,  1767,  died  June  8,  1813;  married, 
December  3,   1784,   Samuel  Benjamin  Nicoll. 

As  David  Richard  Floyd,  son  of  Colonel 
Richard  Floyd  and  Arabella  Jones,  became 
known  as  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  by  Act 


of  Legislature  of  New  York  State  in  1788,  th 
Jones  line  will  be  considered. 

(The  Jones  Line.) 
By  its  very  name,  the  family  proclaims  itse' 
of  the  country  of  Wales.  Johnes  is  the  sty; 
of  the  primitive  orthography,  although  tl" 
contracted  form  of  Johns  is  equally  corre< 
and  Jones  the  modern  form,  now  in  commo 
use  in  America.  Besides  consideration  of  th 
name,  students  of  the  family  history  ass& 
that  traits  and  characteristics  of  the  Welsh  1 
a  race  stand  out  in  succeeding  generations  eve 
since  the  arrival  of  the  first  of  the  name  i 
this  country,  and  they  even  go  so  far  as  t 
point  out  the  transmission  of  these  traits  i 
the  female  line,  when  reflecting  on  the  qual 
ties  of  allied  families  Edward  F.  de  Lance 
has  defined  them.  "The  distinguishing  cha: 
acteristics  of  the  family  are  penetration,  judj 
ment,  independence,  resolution,  clearness  c 
intellect,  strength  of  memory,  coolness,  di 
termination  of  action  and  high  honor,  unite 
with  a  temperament  sanguine  and  choleri 
great  fearlessness,  and  a  disposition  extreme! 
social  and  hospitable  "  Another  has  saic 
"Other  characteristics  of  the  family,  those  n< 
based  upon  the  ideas  of  any  one  individua 
are  its  longevity,  the  excellence  of  its  matr 
monial  alliances,  the  great  eminence  whic 
many  of  its  members  have  obtained  in  leg; 
jurisprudence,  and  the  continuance  of  tl' 
latter  through  successive  generations."  Wei 
either  of  these  views  half  right,  one  would  ha\ 
abundant  reason  to  be  proud  if  a  member  c 
the  family,  which  for  righteous  reason  finds  i 
name  recorded  on  numerous  pages  of  Amer 
can  history.  In  substantiation  of  this  a  sing- 
paragraph  will  make  the  matter  perfect! 
clear.  Commencing  with  Major  Thorn? 
Jones,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  countr 
one  finds  that  shortly  after  his  arrival  on  Lon 
Island,  about  1695,  he  held  the  official  positio 
of  high  sheriff,  and  in  1710  was  justice  of  th 
peace  for  Queens  county.  After  his  decea; 
his  eldest  son  David  became  judge  of  Queer 
county,  in  1734,  and  was  made  the  secon 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  Yor 
in  17^3,  sitting  for  ten  years,  when  he  wa 
succeeded  by  his  son  Thomas,  who  filled  th 
offices  of  recorder  of  the  City  of  New  Yor 
and  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court,  holding  th 
latter  office  until  the  end  of  the  revolutio: 
when,  because  of  his  adherence  to  the  Crowi 
he  was  forced  to  leave  the  country  for  Enc 


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land,  where  he  wrote  his  v/ell-known  history, 
"New  York  During  the  Revolutionary  War." 
These  facts  not  alone  seem  to.  but  actually 
do  prove,  the  previous  declaration  regarding 
this  family's  standing  in  the  community. 

(I)  Major  Thomas  Jones  was  the  progenitor 
of  this  family  in  America.  It  is  a  matter  of 
tradition  that  the  family  was  descended  in 
remote  times  from  a  good  family  resident  of 
Ireland  who  intermarried  with  another  of 
Wales,  supposed  to  have  originated  in  Merion- 
etshire  or  Glamorganshire.  But,  as  previously 
stated,  the  blood  of  the  Welsh  family  seems  to 
have  been  predominant  and  has  given  the 
name. 

Thomas  Jones,  after  the  king's  defeat  at 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  fought  between  the 
English  under  William  ITI.  and  the  Irish 
under  James  II.,  1690,  emigrated  to  America 
from  Straubane,  Ireland,  in  1692,  his  title 
of  major  having  been  bestowed  when  he  was 
an  officer  in  the  army  of  the  dethroned  mon- 
arch. He  was  a  Protestant  gentleman  of 
Straubane,  in  county  Tyrone,  Province  of 
Ulster,  Ireland,  some  one  hundred  and  fifty 
or  more  miles  to  the  northwest  of  Dublin, 
where  he  was  born  about  the  year  1665  The 
family  had  come  there,  the  north  of  Ireland, 
from  England.  He  landed  at  Port  Royal,  in 
the  island  of  Jamaica,  where  he  was  at  the 
time  of  the  great  earthquake  in  June  of  that 
year.  It  is  unverified  tradition  that  he  com- 
manded one  of  the  vessels  in  the  harbor 
whither  the  people  then  flocked  for  safety — the 
"Swan"  and  the  "Siam  Merchant."  Thomas 
Jones  figures  in  history  as  a  regularly  com- 
missioned privateer  under  King  James  II., 
for  there  is  record  of  a  trial  for  being  a  pirate, 
whereas  his  business  differed  essentially  as 
may  be  shown.    In  his  testimony  he  avers : 

"We  accepted  the  King's  commission  and  acted 
under  it,  and  for  which  we  were  condemned  as 
traitors,  and  we  never  received  any  protection  from 
King  William;  but  served  all  along  as  subjects  to 
King  James  II.,  etc.,  etc.,  and  that  after  the  sur- 
render of  Limerick  we  (and  thousands  more)  were 
conveyed  as  enemies  into  France,  with  our  arms, 
brass  guns  and  ammunition,  and  that  being  thus 
conveyed  to  France,  continued  to  act  under  King 
James  II.,  as  our  King,  and  he  all  along,  while  we 
were  in  Ireland  and  after,  commissioned  us  as  his 
subjects,  and  that  the  ship  and  goods  we  took  by 
virtue  of  a  commission  as  privateers,  etc.,  etc.,  and 
that  thereafter  we  ought  to  be  treated  as  only  ene- 
mies and  prisoners  of  war,  etc.  Some  of  these 
men  were  executed,  not  all." 


The  above  shows  the  activity  of  the  man  in 
adventure  and  a  portion  of  his  life  in  following 
the  sea.  When  he  arrived  in  Rhode  Island 
he  held  a  commission  as  captain.  This  was 
in  1692.  The  governor  of  New  York  colony 
from  1692  to  1698  was  Colonel  Fletcher,  and 
he  it  was  most  likely  who  allowed  him  the  com- 
mission or  recognized  him  as  a  captain  to 
cruise  against  Spain  while  that  country  was 
at  war  with  England.  While  in  Rhode 
Island  he  became  associated  with  Captain 
Thomas  Townsend,  who  was  an  active  trader. 
He  participated  in  his  numerous  enterprises 
and  married  his  daughter  Freelove.  Captain 
Townsend  was  son  of  John  Townsend  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth,  and  had  come  to  Rhode 
Island  from  their  place  on  Long  Island.  The 
latter  colony  had  proved  a  refuge  for  the 
Ouakers  when  persecuted,  and  there  Thomas 
Townsend,  his  father-in-law,  died  in  or  about 
1712.  Thomas  Townsend  gave  to  Major 
Thomas  Jones  and  Freelove  Townsend  Jones, 
his  wife,  in  1695,  a  large  tract  of  land  which 
bad  formerly  belonged  to  the  Massapequa 
Indians  at  Fort  Neck,  on  the  south  side  of 
Long  Island.  He  had  previously  offered  it 
to  his  son.  John  Townsend ;  but  the  land 
seemed  so  distant  from  other  built-up  places 
that  the  son  refused  it,  saying:  "Does  father 
want  me  to  go  out  of  the  world?" 

Seven  Indians  from  this  place  had  come 
on  November  27.  1655,  to  deal  with  Peter 
Stuvvesant,  the  Dutch  governor  at  New  Am- 
sterdam, representing  the  Marsepain,  or  Mar- 
sepingh  tribes,  whose  chief  was  Tachpausaan, 
alias  Meautinnemin,  Fort  Neck,  Queens  coun- 
ty, Indians.  To  this  vast  estate  Major  Thomas 
Tones  and  his  wife  removed  in  1696  There 
he  built  a  substantial  house  of  brick,  at  the 
head  of  the  creek,  on  the  portion  now  known 
as  the  Massapequa  Farm.  Many  relics  of  the 
tribes  have  been  dug  up  at  this  locality,  and 
it  is  believed  by  what  has  been  discovered  that 
the  Indian  cemetery  was  on  the  north  side  of 
the  turnpike,  just  west  of  Little  Massapequa 
creek.  Lord  Cornbury,  governor  of  the 
province  of  New  York,  commissioned  Thomas 
Jones  a  captain  of  militia  in  Queens  county, 
October  20,  1702.  On  October  14,  1704,  he 
was  appointed  high  sheriff  of  Queens  county, 
and  on  April  3,  1706,  he  was  made  major 
of  the  Queens  county  regiment.  Governor 
Hunter  of  New  York  appointed  him  ranger 
general  of  the  Island  of  Nassau.     The  last- 


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named  commission  bears  date  September  4, 
1710.  Rangers  general  were  sworn  officers  of 
the  Crown,  to  whom  were  granted  by  the 
sovereign  or  his  representative  the  royal  rights 
or  franchises,  of  waifs,  estrays,  bunting  royal 
fish,  treasure  trove,  mines,  deodands,  forfei- 
tures and  the  like.  This  particular  office  gave 
Major  Junes  the  monopoly  of  the  whale  and 
other  fisheries  from  both  the  north  and  south 
shores  of  Long  Island  Subsequent  to  Thomas 
Junes'  settlement  upon  this  domain,  he  ac- 
quired from  the  Indians  and  other  owners,  as 
well  as  by  inheritance  by  bis  wife  from  her 
father,  various  tracts  which  included  the  West 
Neck  and  Umqua  properties.  By  accumula- 
tion he  was  eventually  the  possessor  of  about 
6,000  acres  of  land,  all  contiguous,  which  at 
a  later  date  was  designated  as  follows:  "That 
part  extending  from  or  near  (be  Jerusalem 
South  ('reek',  later  called  'Yerrity's,'  or  At- 
ianticville  creek,  now  designated  as  Seaford 
creek,  to  the  Little  West  Massapequa  creek, 
was  denominated  'West  Neck  From  the 
West  Massapequa  creek  to  the  east  branch  of 
Fori  Neck  creek  was  called  Fort  Neck,  and 
from  there  cast  to  Carman's  creek,  running 
south  to  Umqua  Point,  was  designated  as 
Umqua.  The  northern  boundary  of  the  es- 
tate ran  very  close  to  the  village  of  Ilard- 
scrable.  now  Farmingdale."  The  dwelling 
which  be  erected  was  for  many  years  the 
wonder  of  the  age.  its  cognomen  being  the 
"(  »lil  Brick  I  louse."  Many  strange  and  weird 
stories  are  told  about  it,  one  to  the  effect  that 
after  the  death  of  Major  Jones,  strange  noises 
were  heard  there,  and  that  a  small,  cir- 
cular window,  seen  in  the  gable,  could  newer 
be  closed,  for  sashes,  boards  and  even  bricks 
held  by  mortar,  placed  over  or  in  it,  were  in- 
stantly removed  by  an  invisible  power.  This 
house  was  demolished  in  1837,  and  for  a  long 
time  afterward  any  negro  passing  by  would 
shrink  with  terror,  expecting  the  appearance 
of  a  ghost.  The  inlet  from  the  Great  South 
Bay  into  the  ocean  has  for  a  long  time  been 
known  as  Jones'  Inlet,  and  the  long  sand  dune 
as  Jones'  Beach,  taking  the  name  directly 
from  the  progenitor  of  the  family  and  original 
owner.  Freelove  Townsend  Jones  also  re- 
ceived from  her  father  a  house  and  two  lots 
in  Oyster  Bay,  which  Major  Jones  sold  to 
George  Townsend  in   1712. 

When    Major   Thomas  Jones   died,   Decem- 
ber 13,   1713,  he  was  buried  in  a  small  grave- 


yard on  the  bank  of  what  was  then  called 
Brick  House  Creek,  now  known  as  Massa- 
pequa Creek.  A  brownstone  headpiece  marks 
the  spot,  on  which  was  carved  the  inscription 
which  he  wrote:  "Here  Lyes  Interd  The 
Body  of  Major  Thomas  Jones,  Who  Came 
From  Straubane,  In  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland, 
Settled  Mere  and  Died  December,  1713"  Be- 
neath that : 

"From  Distant  Lands  to  This  Wild  Waste  He  Came, 
This    Seat    He    Choose,   And   Here   He    Fixed    His 

Name. 
Long  May  His  Sons  This  Peace  Full  Spot  Injoy, 
And   No   111   Fate  his  Offspring  Here  Annoy." 

On  May  21,  \~o<>.  Major  Thomas  Jones, 
Colonel  Henry  Smith,  and  Colonel  Richard 
Floyd  were  ordered  by  Lieutenant-Governor 
[ngoldesby  "to  engage  the  Long  Island  In- 
dians to  join  the  expedition  into  Canada."  In 
1711  lie  subscribed  £2  English  towards  build- 
ing Trinity  Church  steeple  in  New  York  City. 
As  early  as  1710  be  held  the  office  of  super- 
visor of  (  lyster  Bay,  and  was  annually  re- 
elected until  be  died.  September  2,  17011,  he 
was  appointed  assistant  justice  of  court  of 
common  pleas  for  Queens  county.  His  wi- 
dow, who  was  born  December  29,  1674,  mar- 
ried Major  Timothy  Bagley  (no  issue),  and 
died  July,  172(1.  Children:  1.  Sarah  L.,  born 
[695,  died  August  iS,  [696.  2.  David,  of 
whom  further.  3.  Freelove.  born  1700,  died 
before  17(18.  4.  Thomas,  born  1701,  died 
November  13,  1741.  5.  Sarah,  born  1703.  6. 
Margaret,  born  about  170(1,  died  before  1768. 
7.  William,  born  April  25,  1708,  died  August 
29,  17711  8.  Elizabeth,  born  about  1710,  (lied 
after   1768. 

(II)  Judge  David  Jones,  son  of  Major 
Thomas  [ones  and  Freelove  Townsend,  was 
born  at  Fort  Neck,  Long  Island,  September 
id.  [699,  and  died  there,  in  the  "Old  Brick 
House,"  October  11,  1775.  As  early  as  1734 
he  had  from  Coventor  Cosby,  of  New  York, 
the  appointment  of  judge  of  Queens  county, 
sitting  in  the  court  of  common  pleas.  On 
June  2,  1737,  at  an  election  for  members  of 
assembly,  be  bad  390  votes  and  Colonel  Isaac- 
Hicks  432.  the  latter  supported  by  the  Quak- 
ers, who  were  of  course  numerous.  From 
l7?,7  to  1758  he  was  member  of  assem- 
bly and  also  in  1761.  For  thirteen  years 
lie  presided  as  speaker  of  the  house.  It 
was  here  he  made  a  decided  mark  in  his- 
tory. On  December  15,  1737,  he  introduced 
a  bill   to   repeal   so   much   of  the  law   of  this 


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colony  concerning  the  Quakers  as  required 
them  to  produce  certificates.  This  bill  was 
lost,  Chief  Justice  de  Lancey  dissenting.  Oc- 
tober 20,  1737,  he  introduced  a  bill  "to  restrain 
tavern  keepers  from  selling  strong  liquors  to 
servants  and  apprentices."  It  was  passed. 
September  14,  1738.  he,  with  Colonel  Isaac 
Hicks  and  others,  were  appointed  by  the  legis- 
lature as  a  committee  to  prepare  an  address 
of  condolence  to  His  Majesty  on  the  lamented 
death  of  her  late  Majesty  Queen  Charlotte. 
November,  1739,  a  bill  was  introduced  by  him 
and  passed,  to  prevent  setting  fire  or  burning 
the  old  grass  on  Hempstead  Plains.  October 
4,  1752,  he  was  chosen  speaker.  July  4,  1753, 
he  and  John  Townsend  and  others  were  ap- 
pointed commissioners  to  examine  the  en- 
croachments made  on  this  province  by  neigh- 
boring colonies. 

Although  Judge  David  Jones  was  an  Epis- 
copalian, he  was  not  of  the  high  church  party 
favored  by  his  son,  Thomas,  and  it  is  inferred 
that  he  inclined  somewhat  to  the  Presbyte- 
rians, because  they  were  so  largely  his  con- 
stituents. In  1754,  while  speaker  of  assembly, 
he  had  much  to  do  in  procuring  the  charter 
for  King's  College  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
now  Columbia  University.  A  clause  in  this 
charter  provided  that  its  president  should  al- 
ways be  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England. 
This  created  a  serious  storm  of  opposition,  and 
he  was  roundly  abused  for  favoring  it.  His 
son  lias  left  a  statement  regarding  the  incident 
in  these  words :  "It  threw  the  whole  Province 
into  a  ferment,  and  Presbyterian  pulpits  thun- 
dered sedition."  In  the  election  for  Assembly, 
February  24,  1761,  David  Jones  received  382 
votes ;  Thomas  Cornell  363 ;  Thomas  Hicks 
342;  and  Zebulon  Seaman  217.  He  was  first 
appointed  judge  in  T758,  and  although  the 
rule  that  an  office-holder  went  out  on  the  death 
of  the  monarch,  he  was  reappointed  in  176T, 
and  he  continued  to  hold  the  position  until, 
wishing  to  resign  in  1773,  his  son  Thomas  took 
his  place. 

He  built  a  large  house  on  his  estate  at  Fort 
Neck,  which  he  called  Tryon  Hall,  in  honor 
of  the  governor.  He  possessed  the  clearness 
of  mind  and  incisiveness  of  character  which 
is  so  marked  a  characteristic  of  his  race,  never 
hesitating  in  doing  anything  he  believed  to  be 
right,  reeardless  of  consequences,  and  alwavs 
commanded  the  confidence  of  the  public 
throughout  his  career.     While  speaker  of  as- 


sembly, he  had  the  firmness  to  order  the  doors 
of  the  chamber  closed  against  the  governor 
until  a  bill,  then  under  discussion,  was  acted 
upon,  it  being  known  that  the  governor  was 
opposed  and  had  determined  to  prevent  action. 
Throughout  his  life  he  was  an  unyielding  ad- 
vocate of  the  rights  of  the  people  against  every 
species  of  royal  encroachment 

To  Judge  David  Jones  and  his  heirs  in  taile 
was  devised  the  greater  portion  of  his  father's 
large  estate  located,  at  South  Oyster  Bay,  who 
by  suffering  a  common  recovery  the  life  estate 
thus  devised  to  him  was  changed  into  a  fee, 
which  he  devised  to  his  son  Thomas  during 
his  life,  with  remainder  on  failure  of  issue, 
to  his  daughter  Arabella  and  her  issue  in- 
tail-male.  The  entailment  of  the  property  by 
Judge  David  Jones  saved  it  from  being  for- 
feited, as  he  adhered  to  the  royal  cause  during 
the  revolution,  and  on  the  restoration  of  peace 
was  "attainted"  and  forced  to  leave  the  coun- 
try for  England,  where  he  died  without  issue. 
The  estate  thus  devised  him  under  his  father's 
will  was  by  a  provision  in  that  will  vested  in 
the  testator's  daughter,  Arabella,  and  her  heirs 
in-taile-male.  An  abstract  of  this  important 
will  states: 

"All  his  beaches,  lands,  marshes  and  grounds  cov- 
ered with  water  in  Queens  County,  he  gives  to  his 
son,  Thomas,  for  his  use  during  his  life,  and  after 
his  death  to  the  use  of  the  first  son  of  his  said  son 
Thomas,  and  the  heirs  male  of  such  first  son,  etc.. 
and  in  failure  of  such  issue  to  the  use  of  the  second 
son.  and  sons  of  his  said  son  Thomas  during  their 
lives.  On  the  failure  of  heirs  male  of  his  son, 
Thomas,  he  gives  all  the  said  real  estate  to  and  for 
the  use  of  the  oldest  daughter  of  his  said  son, 
Thomas,  during  life.  etc.  In  case  of  a  total  failure 
of  issue  of  his  son  Thomas,  he  gives  the  same  to 
and  for  use  of" his  grandson.  David  Richard  Floyd, 
the  oldest  son  of  his  daughter  Arabella,  for  his  life, 
and  after  his  death  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  first 
son  of  his  said  grandson,  in-tail  forever,  they  taking 
the  surname  of  Jones." 

Judge  Jones  made  further  provision,  in  case 
there  was  no  male  heir  and  no  one  of  his  fam- 
ily took  the  name  of  Jones.  In  either  event 
the  said  lands  were  to  go  to  King's  College. 
New  York ;  the  rents  and  issues  to  be  applied 
yearly  to  the  maintenance  of  charity  schools, 
two  of  such  schools  always  to  be  in  Queens 
county — one  at  Tamaica  and  the  other  in  the 
town  of  Oyster  Bay. 

Judge  David  Jones  married,  November  22, 
1722.  Anna,  then  aged  eighteen  years,  called 
the  second  daughter  of  Colonel  William  Wil- 
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New  York,  great-granddaughter  of  the  settler, 
Thomas  Willett,  of  Bristol,  England,  who 
married  Sarah  Cornell,  of  New  York,  in  1643. 
She  died  January  31,  1750,  and  he  later  mar- 
ried Margaret,  widow  of  John  Treadwell,  by 
whom  no  issue.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  William  Willett  and  his  wife  Alice. 
daughter  of  Governor  Colden,  therefore  a 
niece  (if  his  fust  wife.  Children:  1.  Anna, 
born  May  11,  1724.  2.  Sarah,  born  February 
12,  1728,  died  April,  1828.  3.  Thomas,  born 
April  20,  1731,  -lied  July  25,  1792.  4.  Ara- 
bella, born  December  7,  1734,  died  May  29, 
1785;  married,  November  2,  1757.  Colonel 
Richard  Floyd  (see  foward).  5.  David,  born 
April  30,  1737,  died  September  9,  1758.  6. 
Mary,  born  April  2n,  1743. 

(The  Floyd-Jones  Line.) 
(Y)  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  (formerly 
David  Richard  Floyd),  son  of  Colonel  Rich- 
ard Floyd  and  Arabella  bines,  was  born  No- 
vember 14.  1704,  and  died  February  10,  1826. 
He  took  possession  of  the  Fort  Neck  estate 
about  1782  to  1783,  it  being  with  his  mother's 
consent,  and  that  of  his  uncle.  Judge  Thomas 
Jones,  when  the  latter  became  civilly  dead  by 
reason  of  the  Act  of  Attainder.  As  his  grand- 
father, Judge  David  Jones,  by  his  will  entailed 
his  Fort  Neck  property  in-tail  male  upon  his 
only  son,  Judge  Thomas  Jones,  and  in  default 
of  issue  to  his  daughter  Arabella  in-tail  male. 
by  reason  of  such  default  David  Richard 
Floyd  inherited.  But  there  was  another  pro- 
vision in  the  will,  and  that  was  to  the  effect 
that  the  son  inheriting  must  take  the  surname 
of  Jones  or  annex  it.  He  therefore  appealed 
to  the  legislature  to  be  allowed  to  affix  the 
name  of  Jones  to  his  own  The  Act  of  the 
Legislature  reads : 

"Chap.  75  of  the  New  York  Laws  of  1788;  an  Act 
to  enable  David  Richard  Floyd  to  add  the  name  of 
Jones  to  his  surname,  passed  March  14,  1788: 
Whereas.  David  Richard  Flovd  by  his  petition  to 
the  Legislature  has  prayed  that  the  surname  Tones 
may  be  added  to  his  present  name.  Therefore,  Be 
it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
represented  in  Senate  and  Assembly,  and  it  is  hereby 
enacted  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  that  the  sur- 
name of  Jones  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  added  to 
the  name  of  David  Richard  Floyd  and  "that  at  all 
times  hereafter  he  shall  and  mav'take  upon  himself 
the  name  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones,  and  by  the 
same  name  be  known  and  called  in  all  cases  what- 
soever." 

Shortly  after  his  succeeding  to  the  estate,  he 
was  admonished  by  his  uncle,  Judge  Thomas 


Jones,  as  follows:  "Behave  with  caution  ar 
prudence,  and  let  me  beg  of  you  by  your  coi 
duct  never  to  disgrace  the  families  of  yoi 
two  grandfathers.  Always  remember  one  w; 
first  m  Queens,  the  other  in  Suffolk."  Thei 
is  every  evidence  that  he  regarded  this  a< 
vice,  and  lived  with  probity  and  honor,  ; 
had  his  ancestors.  It  is  known  that  he  w; 
a  most  faithful  churchman,  never  failing  1 
drive  on  Sunday  mornings  ten  miles  to  S 
George's  Church  at  Hempstead,  which  w; 
the  nearest   in   the  parish. 

David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  married,  Sej 
temlier  20,  1785,  Sarah  Onderdonk,  bor 
March  2(>,  1758,  died  February  29,  184, 
daughter  of  Hendrick  and  Phoebe  (Treac 
well )  (  (nderdonk.  Her  father-in-law  was  c 
the  third  generation  in  this  country,  being  tli 
son  of  Andries  and  his  wife,  Gertrude  Lot 
He  was  born  December  11,  1724;  died  Marc 
31,  1809;  married  May  20,  1750:  and  she  wa 
born  July  12.  1730.  died  December  19,  180] 
Children:  1.  David  Thomas,  born  April  2' 
1787,  died  June  12,  1787.  2.  Thomas,  0 
whom  further.  3.  Arabella,  born  February  ( 
1700.  died  May  5,  1790.  4.  Henry  Onderdont 
born  January  3,  1792,  died  December  20.  1862 
became  a  major-general ;  married  Heler 
daughter  of  Charles  Watts,  of  South  Caro 
Una,  who  was  born  November  24,  1792,  am 
died  July  18,  1872;  seven  children.  5.'  An 
drew  Onderdonk,  born  January  9.  1794,  die< 
February  n,  1704. 

(VI)  Brigadier-General  Thomas  Floyd 
Jones,  son  of  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  ant 
Sarah  Onderdonk,  was  born  Tilly  "23,  1788 
and  died  August  2^.  1851.  On  the  death  o: 
his  father  he  succeeded  to  the  estate  at  For 
Neck,  which  was  in  1826.  and  was  the  las' 
owner  under  the  entail  created  by  his  great- 
grandfather. Judge  David  Jones.'  When  th< 
law  of  entail  was  abolished  in  1830  he  be- 
came possessor  of  the  entire  estate  in  fee 
simple.  When  he  died  in  185 1,  intestate,  his 
estate  was  divided  among  his  four  children  sc 
that  each  was  the  recipient  of  about  1.200  acres 
of  the  land  which  had  been  left  from  father 
to  son  since  the  time  of  the  Indians.  He  was 
one  of  those  contributing  to  the  erection  of 
Grace  Church,  at  Massapeoua.  Long  Island; 
in  fact,  he  was  the  one  to  give  the  land  there- 
for and  was  one  of  the  two  comprising  the 
building  committee.  Because  of  his  love  and 
affection    for  his  brother,   Henry  Onderdonk 


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loyd-Jones,  he  deeded  to  him  a  good  farm 
>n  the  eastern  part  of  the  Fort  Neck  property, 
letween  the  two  branches  of  Fort  Neck  creek, 
m  which  a  house  of  some  size  then  stood, 
vhich  was  rebuilt  and  the  place  named  "Rose- 
lale."  This  brother  was  a  member  of  assem- 
bly in  1829-30,  and  a  member  of  the  State 
enate  in  1836-40,  besides  which  he  held  the 
>osition  of  major-general  of  Queens  county 
nilitia.  Both  the  brothers  received  exceed- 
ngly  long  and  interesting  epistles  from  James 

enimore  Cooper,  which  were  published  in  a 
jook  entitled  "England  by  an  American." 
jeneral  Floyd-Jones  commanded  a  company 
)f  detached  militia  in  the  Second  Regiment 
)f  New  York  State  Infantry,  commanded  by 

olonel  Daniel  Bedell,  at  Fort  Green,  Brook- 
yn,  in  the  war  with  England,  1812-1815.  He 
vas  regarded  as  a  thoroughly  representative 
nan  of  the  gentry  of  Queens  county,  and  was 
esteemed  by  his  neighbors.  In  1837,  he  re- 
reived  the  letters  mentioned  from  his  friend 
Zooper,  who  was  making  an  extensive  tour 
ibroad  and  was  a  connection  by  marriage, 
general  Thomas  Floyd-Jones  married  January 
?8,  1812,  Cornelia  Haring  Jones,  born  April 
22,  1796,  died  December  29,  1839,  daughter  of 
Major  William  and  Kezia  (Youngs)  Jones,  of 
3old  Spring  Harbor,  Long  Island,  and  thus  a 
hird  cousin  of  her  husband.  Children:  I. 
David  Richard,  of  whom  further.  2.  William, 
Dorn  March  10,  1815,  died  February  7,  1896; 
narried  Caroline  Amelia,  daughter  of  Robert 
Blackwell,  of  New  York,  and  who  was  born 
[uly  37,  1822,  died  December  9,  1886.  3.  El- 
Dert,  born  February  7,  1817,  died  February 
iy,  1901 ;  married  (first)  June  5,  1838,  Emily, 
born  181 5,  died  April  29,  1845,  daughter  of 
Plunket  F.  Glentworth,  M.D.,  of  Philadelphia, 
ind  Harriet  Bostock,  his  wife.  4.  Sarah  Ma- 
ria, born  December  10,  1818,  died  January  2, 
1892 ;  married,  1854,  Coleman  Williams,  born 
1805,  died  December  27,  1891,  and  formerly 
resided  in  Halifax  Court  House,  Virginia. 

(VII)  Lieutenant-Governor  David  Richard 
Floyd-Jones,  son  of  Brigadier-General  Thomas 
Floyd-Jones  and  Cornelia  Haring  Jones,  was 
born  at  Fort  Neck,  Long  Island,  April  6,  1813, 
and  died  at  the  old  homestead,  January  8,  1871. 
He  was  buried  in  the  ancient  family  burial- 
ground  at  Massapequa.  Long  Island. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  a  public 
school  near  his  father's  residence  at  Fort  Neck, 
and  commenced  his  classical  studies  in  Christ 


Church  School  at  Manhasset.  He  then  entered 
the  sophomore  class  of  Union  College,  gradu- 
ating in  1832.  After  that  he  studied  law  in 
the  office  of  Judge  Samuel  W.  Jones,  of 
Schenectady,  and  began  practice  in  1835,  with 
James  P.  Howard,  in  New  York  City.  He 
started  his  political  career  in  1840,  and  identi- 
fied himself  with  the  Democratic  party.  In 
1840  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  assembly  of 
New  York,  and  was  re-elected  in  1841,  and 
again  the  following  year.  In  1843  he  was 
elected  to  the  senate  from  the  first  district, 
which  then  comprised  the  counties  of  New 
York,  Kings  and  Richmond.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent and  influential  member  of  the  constitu- 
tional convention  of  1846  from  New  York- 
City.  On  the  close  of  his  senatorial  term, 
1847,  and  following  the  death  of  Jesse  Oakley, 
he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  superior  court 
of  New  York  City,  by  Chief  Justice  Oakley, 
Judges  Sandford  and  Van  der  Poel,  which 
office  he  filled  faithfully  until  the  death  of  his 
father,  1852,  when  he  returned  to  his  native 
place.  Through  1858-59  he  held  the  position 
of  president  of  the  Queens  County  Agricul- 
tural Society,  for  he  had  been  as  successful  as 
a  country  gentleman  as  in  politics. 

In  1856  he  was  lured  from  a  pleasant  retire- 
ment to  be  assemblyman  and  in  the  subse- 
quent session  filled  the  speaker's  chair.  He 
was  nominated  with  great  unanimity  of  senti- 
ment for  secretary  of  state  by  both  wings  of 
the  Democratic  party  in  the  fall  of  1859,  and 
was  triumphantly  elected,  holding  the  position 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war.  He  co- 
operated with  Governor  Morgan  in  enlisting 
and  sending  forward  troops,  and  was  a  pa- 
triotic figure  along  these  lines.  He  took  a 
most  decided  stand  against  the  dissolution  of 
the  Union,  and  made  a  ringing  speech  July  4, 
1862,  which  attracted  wide  attention  and  was 
published.  It  brought  him  more  into  the 
limelight  of  public  life,  and  in  the  fall  of  that 
year  he  was  elected  lieutenant-governor  on  the 
ticket  with  Horatio  Seymour  heading  it  for 
governor.  His  oration  upon  assuming  office, 
January  5,  1863,  when  he  was  the  acting  ex- 
oificio  president  of  the  senate,  was  a  burst  of 
patriotism  which  stirred  the  souls  of  listeners. 
One  who  had  known  him  intimately  and  had 
been  his  political  opponent,  spoke  of  him  in  this 
strain  after  his  death  : 

"He  passed  through  life  from  the  beginning  to 
the   end    of   it,    I   believe,    without   a   single   blemish 


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upon  his  reputation  or  standing  before  the  entire 
community  of  this  State.  No  man  in  the  heat  of 
party  strife  or  conflict,  no  man  in  the  heat  of  debate 
upon  lb.'  floor  in  either  branch  of  the  Legislature, 
was  ever  heard  to  saj  aught  against  his  pure  and 
upright  character,  and  no  man  who  watched  him 
can  saj  aught  than  that  he  worked  with  his  whole 
heart  and  soul  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  had 
placed   him   in   position." 

In  the  work  of  the  Episcopal  church  lie-  was 
a  devout  and  consistent  helper.  The  (  hutch 
Journal  of   1871  has  this  to  say: 

"His  influence  and  usefulness  in  the  councils  of 
the  church  need  no  other  record  than  the  important 
positions  which  he  tilled  in  the  Diocese  of  New 
York  previous  to  its  recent  division,  and  subse- 
quently in  the  Diocese  of  Long  Island.  Tn  the  new 
diocese  his  important  services  were  immediately  rec- 
ognized and  acknowledged  at  its  primary  convention 
by  his  being  elected  a  member  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee, a  deputy  to  the  General  Convention,  and  also 
a  deputy  to  the  Federal  Council.  He  was  appointed 
on  the  Special  Committees  on  Canons,  and  on  the 
Revision  of  the  Constitution  and  Canons,  in  both  of 
which  he  served  with   marked  ability." 

Lieutenant-Governor  David  Richard  Floyd- 
Jones  married,  at  Albany,  New  York,  June  25, 
1845,  Mary  Louisa  Stanton,  horn  August  14. 
1818,  died  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island,  July 
22,  1906,  daughter  of  George  W.  Stanton,  of 
Albany,  and  his  wife  Sally,  daughter  of  Theo 
philus  Morgan,  of  Killingworth,  Connecticut 
Children:  1.  Stanton,  horn  June  II,  1846, 
died  February  17,  1848.  2.  George  Stanton, 
of  whom  further.  3.  Thomas  Richard,  horn 
December  15,  185 1,  died  February  4,  1857.  4. 
Mary  Louisa,  horn  September  29,  1853.  5 
Henrietta,  born  <  >ctober  22,  1855,  died  No- 
vember  13,  1897;  graduate  of  St.  Mary's  Hall, 
Burlington,  New  Jersey;  joined  Sisterhood  of 
St.  John  the  Baptist.  6.  Sarah  Hall,  horn  Sep- 
tember [8,  1857;  married,  June  28,  1892,  Cap- 
tain Nathaniel  \\  .  Barnardiston,  an  officer  in 
the  Duke  of  Cambridge's  "1  Iwn  Middlesex 
Regiment,"  England,  eldest  son  of  Colonel 
Nathaniel,  of  the  Ryes,  Sudbury,  Suffolk 
county,  England,  and  Lady  Florence  Barnard- 
iston. daughter  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Dart- 
mouth ;  by  whom:  Joan,  born  January  31,  [897, 
at  Colchester,  England.  7.  Thomas  Langley, 
born  October  7,   1859,  died  August  30,   1861. 

(VIII)  George  Stanton  Floyd-Jones,  son  of 
Lieutenant-Governor  David  Richard  Floyd- 
Jones  and  Mary  Louisa  Stanton,  was  born  at 
Albany,  New  York,  December  25,  1848.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  the  Albany 
Academy,  then  at  the  Walnut  Hill  Academy 


in  ( ieneva,  New  York,  and  followed  this  coursi 
with  studies  in  the  Oak  Hill  Academy  a 
Yonkers.  He  became  associated  with  the  At 
lantic  Mutual  Insurance  Company,  Septembei 
_>5,  1S113,  and  in  1013  was  secretary  of  tha 
corporation,  having  succeeded  Mr.  J.  II.  Chap 
man  in  [902.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Demo 
cratic  party,  and  was  an  attendant  of  St.  Igna 
tins  Episcopal  Church  in  New  York  City  am 
of  Grace  Church,  Massapequa,  and  was  ; 
member  of  the  vestries  of  each  until  1894 
when  he  and  his  wife  joined  the  Roman  Cath 
olic  church,  attending  St.  Martin's  Church 
Long  Island,  and  the  Church  of  the  Blessec 
Sacrament  in  New  York  City.  His  summe 
home  is  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island,  and  i; 
called  "Seawan,"  and  his  city  residence  is  a 
No.  207  West  Seventieth  Street.  New  Yorl 
City.  He  is  a  member  of  several  clubs  anc 
societies,  among  them  the  Imion  Club,  Cath 
olic  Club,  Automobile  Club,  Society  Sons  o 
the  Revolution,  Union  Society  of  the  Civi 
War.  Society  for  the  Protection  of  Game,  etc 

George  Stanton  Floyd-Jones  married,  a 
Christ  Church,  New  York  City,  February  4 
1880,  Anita  <  )wen.  She  was  born  in  Nev 
York  City,  May  3,  1855,  and  was  the  daughte 
of  Thomas  Jefferson  Owen  and  Emilie  Ket 
chain  Piatt,  of  New  York  City. 

(VI)  Henry  Onderdonk  Floyd-Jones,  son  o 
David  Richard  and  Sarah  (Onderdonk' 
Floyd-Jones  was  horn  January  3,  1792,  an< 
died  at  his  home  in  South  Oyster  Bay,  Lonj 
Island,  New  York,  December  20,  1862.  H 
was  member  of  assembly  from  Queens  count; 
in  1821)  and  1830,  and  from  1836  to  1840  wa 
State  senator  for  the  First  District,  compris 
ing  then  Long  Island,  Staten  Island  and  Nev 
York  City.  He  was  major-general  of  th> 
Queens  county  militia. 

( ieneral  Henry  O.  Floyd-Jones  marriei 
Helen,  daughter  of  Charles  Watts,  of  Charles 
ton,  South  Carolina,  who  was  born  Novembe 
24,  1792,  and  died  at  South  Oyster  Bay,  Jul; 
18.  1872.  Children:  1.  Charles,  born  1817 
died  1874;  married  Isabella  M.  Semple,  wh< 
died  November  3,  1888,  by  whom :  Robert 
Semple  and  Edgar.  2.  Sarah,  born  October  1 
[818,  died  August  10,  1000:  unmarried.  3 
Henry,  horn  March  10,  1820,  died  Februar; 
20,  1840;  unmarried.  4.  Edward,  of  whon 
further.  5.  De  Lancey,  born  January  2C 
1826,  died  January  19,  1902,  New  York  City 
married,  June  24,  1852,  Laura  Jeannie  Whit 


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ney,  daughter  of  Warcham  Whitney,  of  Ro- 
chester, New  York ;  no  issue.  He  was  a  West 
Point  graduate,  June,  1846,  when  twenty  years 
old,  and  commissioned  second  lieutenant  in 
the  Seventh  U.  S.  Regiment  of  Infantry, 
served  under  General  Zachary  Taylor  in  Mex- 
ico; in  1848  was  made  lieutenant  because  oi 
his  gallantry  in  the  battle  of  Molino  del  Rey, 
and  July  31,  1854,  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain ;  was  sent  to  California  in  1856  to  serve 
against  the  Kalmath  Indians,  and  May  14. 
1861,  was  commissioned  major  of  the  Eleventh 
Infantry,  serving  in  the  battle  of  Yorktown, 
Gaines  Mill  and  Malvern  Hill.  In  1863  he  be- 
came lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Nineteenth  In- 
fantry, and  on  June  2j,  1867,  was  made  colonel 
of  the  Third  Regiment  Infantry,  serving 
against  the  Indians  during  the  period  of  terri- 
torial expansion,  1868  to  1879,  when  the  red- 
man  was  supreme  the  breadth  of  the  western 
prairies.  In  the  latter  year  he  retired,  and 
living  in  New  York  City  the  remainder  of  his 
life  was  held  in  highest  esteem.  6.  Helen 
Watts,  born  December  9,  1827,  died  July  25, 
1855  ;  unmarried.  7.  Josephine  K.,  born  Au- 
gust, 1832,  died  November  15,  1905;  married 
John  D.  Jones. 

(VII)  Edward  Floyd-Jones,  son  of  Major- 
General  Henry  Onderdonk  and  Helen  (Watts) 
Floyd-Jones,  was  born  at  South  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island,  New  York,  January  26,  1823, 
and  died  at  New  York  City,  January  23,  1901. 
He  was  buried  in  the  ancient  family  burial- 
place  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island. 

He  was  educated  at  Easthampton  and  at 
the  Union  Academy,  Jamaica,  Long  Island. 
Civil  engineering  was  adopted  for  his  profes- 
sion, and  he  followed  this  calling  some  years, 
being  engaged  in  building  railroads.  In  1849, 
when  the  gold  fever  possessed  so  many  and 
the  people  of  the  Eastern  States  were  flock- 
ing in  numbers  to  the  gold  lands  of  the  Pacific 
coast,  he  made  the  trip  by  vessel  around  Cape- 
Horn  and  landing  in  California  engaged  first 
in  engineering  work  and  afterward  in  the  sale 
Df  agricultural  implements  and  general  mer- 
ihandise.  The  firm  was  known  as  Jones  & 
Hewlett,  and  was  located  at  Stockton,  Califor- 
nia. Later  on  Mr.  Hewlett  became  president 
Df  the  Bank  of  Stockton.  Returning  to  the 
East  in  1862  Mr.  Floyd- Jones  lived  for  a  few 
years  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  returned  to 
Stockton  in  1869  and  came  East  permanently 
n  1872,  living  at  Greenport  till  the  death  of 


his  wife  in  1874,  when  he  settled  in  the  old 
homestead  at  South  Oyster  Bay.  He  was 
chosen  supervisor  of  the  town  of  Oyster  Bay 
in  1886,  and  in  1891  was  elected  State  senator, 
receiving  in  Queens  county  1 1,537  votes,  while 
Roswell  P.  Flower,  who  was  elected  governor, 
received  11,543  votes.  His  district  comprised 
Queens  and  Suffolk  counties. 

Edward  Floyd-Jones  married,  at  Greenport, 
Long  Island,  December  10,  1862,  Mary  Smith 
Lord,  of  Greenport,  Long  Island.  She  was 
born  at  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island,  December 
14,  1839,  died  at  San  Francisco,  California, 
May  23,  1874,  and  was  daughter  of  Dr.  Fre- 
derick W.  Lord  and  Louisa  Ackerley. 

(  VIII)  Edward  Henry  Floyd-Jones,  son  of 
Edward  Floyd-Jones  and  Mary  Smith  Lord, 
was  born  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  New 
York,  January  2,  1869,  and  resides  at  Massa- 
pequa, Long  Island,  on  the  old  estate  of  his 
ancestors. 

He  received  his  preparatory  education  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  in  Garden  City,  Long  Island. 
1878-1883,  and  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  1883-1888.  He  then  at- 
tended Yale  University,  1888-1892,  and  gradu- 
ating, entered  the  New  York  Law  School, 
where  he  studied,  1892-1894,  and  entered  the 
practice  of  law  in  New  York  City,  with  office 
at  No.  49  Wall  Street.  He  entered  Squadron 
A,  National  Guard,  New  York,  serving  from 
[895  to  1897.  He  has  usually  voted  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket :  is  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
church,  and  a  vestryman  of  Grace  Church. 
South  Oyster  Bay,  New  York.  Before  resid- 
ing in  Massapequa  he  had  lived  some  time  in 
Hempstead,  Long  Island,  Stockton,  California, 
and  at  Greenport,  Long  Island.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  several  clubs  in  New  York  City,  among 
them  the  University,  Yale.  Graduates  Club  (  of 
New  Haven),  City  Midday,  New  York  Bar 
Association,  Automobile  Club  of  America  and 
the  Aztec  Club  of  1847.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  South  Side  Sportsmen's  Club  of  Long 
Island. 

Edward  H.  Floyd-Jones  married,  November 
22,  1905.  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  father, 
No.  ^^  West  Forty-sixth  Street,  New  York 
City,  Miss  Edith  Carpender,  who  was  born 
at  No.  16  East  Forty-second  Street,  April  i, 
1880,  and  was  the  daughter  of  William  Car- 
pender and  Ella  Floyd-Jones,  daughter  of 
William  Floyd-Jones. 


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This  name  is  of  English  origin,  and 

FISH     was  very  early  identified  with  Long 

Island.     Little  trace  of  it  is   found 

in   New    England,   but   it   has   long  been  well 

known  in   New  York. 

Nathaniel,  John  and  Jonathan  Fish  were,  as 
early  as  1637,  among  the  founders  of  Sand 
wich,  on  Cape  Cod,  coming  there  from  Lynn, 
Massachusetts. 

(I)  Jonathan,  the  youngest  of  them,  later 
moved  to  (  >yster  Bay  on  Long  Island.  He 
again  appears  in  Middelburg,  or  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  as  early  as  [659,  and  was  evi- 
dently a  man  of  worth  and  standing.  The 
records  of  that  town  show  frequent  mention  of 
his  name  in  official  capacities  as  a  magistrate. 
He  was  owner  of  a  twenty-shilling  right  in  the 
town  lands,  which  secured  him  a  share  in  the 
various  divisions  of  the  common  lands.  I  le  died 
about  1663,  leaving  a  widow,  Mary,  and  three 
sons  (John,  Samuel  and  Nathan),  all  of  whom 
were  among  the  patentees  of  Newtown  in 
1686.  Samuel  died  in  1700  without  issue,  and 
John  removed  to  New  Jersey. 

(II)  Nathan,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
Fish,  inherited  from  his  father  a  right  in  the 
undivided  lands  of  Newtown  and  continued  to 
reside  there,  where  he  died  August  1,  1734. 

(  III  )  Jonathan  (2),  eldest  child  of  Nathan 
Fish,  was  born  October  11,  1680,  in  Newtown, 
and  died  there  in  November,  1723.  He  in- 
herited the  ancestral  homestead  and  other 
lands  in  the  village  of  Newtown,  where  he  re- 
sided. I  le  occupied,  and  perhaps  built,  the 
house  afterwards  kept  as  an  inn  by  his  son, 
and  long  known  as  the  "Corner  House."  In 
1715  he  gave  to  the  "Dissenting  Presbyterian 
Congregation  of  Newtown"  the  land  on  which 
the  old  Presbyterian  church  stood  until  the 
present  church  was  built  in  1805  He  served 
fifteen  years  as  town  clerk.  He  was  survived 
by  his  wife  Mary,  but  only  two  of  his  seven 
children  appear  to  have  reached  maturity: 
Samuel,  mentioned  below,  and  Jane,  born  May 
26,  1 72 1,  married  Charles  Palmer. 

(IV)  Captain  Samuel  Fish,  only  surviving 
son  of  Jonathan  (2)  and  Mary  Fish,  was  born 
November  24,  1704,  in  the  village  of  New- 
town, and  inherited  from  his  father  the  "Cor- 
ner House,"  which  became  noted  as  an  inn 
during  his  lifetime.  He  seems  to  have  been  a 
useful  citizen  in  various  ways,  and  died  Au- 
gust zy,  1767.  He  married  (first)  June  21, 
1727,  Agnes,  daughter  of  John  Berrien ;  (sec- 


ond )  April  22,  1748,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward Howard;  (third)  November  19,  1752. 
Anna  Betts,  who  survived  him.  Of  his  fifteen 
children  the  following  appear  in  the  records: 
Jonathan,  mentioned  below ;  Ruth,  born  May 
7,  1730;  Samuel,  April  13,  1734;  Mary,  July 
9,  1736;  Sarah,  February  24,  1739;  Richard, 
August  9,  1743;  Abigail,  August  2j,  1749; 
Elizabeth,  August  24,  1753. 

(V)  Jonathan  (3),  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
and  Agnes  (Berrien)  Fish,  was  born  May  11, 
1728,  in  Newtown,  where  he  died  December 
26,  1779.  He  owned  the  homestead  in  New- 
town, on  which  he  dwelt,  with  the  exception 
of  some  years  when  he  was  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City  and  there  resided.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  October  5.  1750,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Sackett,  who  died  April  9, 
1778;  and  (second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Whitehead,  who  died  October  26, 
1798.  There  were  two  children,  both  of  the 
first  marriage:  Sarah,  born  October  22,  1755. 
married  Terence  Reilly ;  and  Nicholas,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VI)  Nicholas,  only  son  of  Jonathan  (3) 
and  Elizabeth  (Sackett)  Fish,  was  born  Au- 
gust 28,  1758,  in  New  York  City,  and  died 
there  in  his  house.  No.  21  Stuyvesant  street,  on 
June  20,  1833.  He  studied  law  in  the  office 
of  John  Morin  Scott  On  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Revolutionary  War  he  entered  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Colonies  as  a  lieutenant  in  the 
First  .Yew  York  Regiment.  On  November  21, 
1 77'),  he  was  appointed  by  Congress  major  of 
the  Second  New  York  Regiment  of  the  Con- 
tinental army,  and  served  with  that  rank 
throughout  the  war.  At  its  close  he  was.  by 
a  resolution  of  Congress,  commissioned  as 
lieutenant-colonel.  He  participated  in  the  bat- 
tle of  Long  Island,  the  battle  of  Monmouth, 
and  Ceneral  Sullivan's  expedition  against  the 
Indians.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  battles 
which  led  to  the  capture  of  Burgoyne  at  Sara- 
toga, and  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis,  and 
with  his  lifelong  friend,  Hamilton,  was  in  the 
final  assault  at  Yorktown.  He  enjoyed  the 
confidence  of  General  Washington  and  of  all 
his  contemporaries,  and  was  by  him  appointed 
a  division  inspector  of  the  army  in  1778  under 
General  Steuben,  who  was  inspector-general. 
He  continued  in  the  regular  army  for  a  few 
years  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  commanding  a  regiment  of  infantry  at 
Fort  Mcintosh  and  other  points  on  the  (  >hio 


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river  in  1785-6.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and 
assistant  treasurer  of  the  New  York  State  So- 
ciety at  its  organization,  and  president  thereof 
from  1797  to  1804.  In  1786  he  was  appointed 
as  the  first  adjutant-general  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  serving  in  that  capacity  until  1793- 
He  was  appointed  Supervisor  of  the  Revenue 
by  President  Washington  in  1794,  and  served 
for  several  years.  He  was  alderman  of  the 
Ninth  Ward  of  the  City  of  New  York,  1806  to 
1817,  serving  on  the  committee  of  defense  dur- 
ing the  War  of  1812  with  Great  Britain.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Col- 
umbia College  from  1824  to  1832,  and  in  1831 
was  the  last  president  of  the  Butchers  and 
Drovers  Bank.  He  was  a  devout  communi- 
cant of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church, 
and  for  some  years  a  member  of  the 
standing  committee  of  the  Diocese  of  New 
York.  As  Colonel  Fish's  epitaph  in  St. 
Mark's  Church  in  the  Bowerie  aptly  rec- 
ords: "He  was  the  faithful  soldier  of  Christ 
and  of  his  Country."  He  married,  April  30, 
1803,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Petrus  Stuyve- 
sant,  a  great-grandson  of  the  last  Dutch  Gov- 
ernor of  New  Netherlands.  Children :  Susan 
Elizabeth,  born  July  25,  1805,  married  Daniel 
Le  Roy,  of  New  York ;  Margaret  Ann,  Febru- 
ary 11,  1807,  married  John  (2)  Neilson,  of 
New  York;  Hamilton,  mentioned  below; 
Elizabeth  Sarah,  May  25,  1810.  married  Dr. 
Richard  L.  Morris ;  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  May 
13,  1813,  died  unmarried,  November  1,  1834. 
(VII)  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  eldest  son  of 
Colonel  Nicholas  and  Elizabeth  (Stuyvesant) 
Fish,  was  born  August  3,  1808,  in  New  York, 
arid  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in  1827. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1830.  but  early 
turned  his  attention  to  political  affairs.  He 
became  prominent  in  the  Whig  party.  In 
1842  he  was  elected  to  the  National  Congress 
from  the  Sixth  New  York  District.  In  1846 
he  was  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  the  office 
of  lieutenant-governor,  with  the  Hon  John 
Young  as  candidate  for  governor.  Although 
the  head  of  the  ticket  was  elected,  the  oppo- 
sition of  the  anti-renters,  whose  plans  Mr. 
Fish  emphatically  condemned,  prevented  his 
election.  His  successful  competitor,  Addison 
Gardner,  soon  resigned  the  office  to  accept  the 
position  of  judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  and 
Mr.  Fish  was  elected  in  1847  m  his  place.  In 
1848   Mr.   Fish   was  elected  governor  of  the 


State  by  a  plurality  of  nearly  100,000,  and  in 
185 1  was  chosen  United  States  Senator  and 
served  for  six  years,  following  which  he  made 
an  extended  tour  of  Europe.  While  he  was 
in  the  Senate,  the  Republican  party  was  or- 
ganized, and  Governor  Fish,  as  he  was  always 
called,  became  one  of  its  loyal  supporters.  On 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  took  a  de- 
cided stand  in  defense  of  the  Union  and  at- 
tained a  commanding  influence.  In  1862 
President  Lincoln  appointed  him  a  member  of 
the  Commission  to  visit  the  Union  prisoners 
confined  in  Richmond,  with  a  view  to  obtain- 
ing an  exchange,  which  was  eventually  ef- 
fected. He  also  was  chairman  of  the  Union 
Defense  Committee.  In  1869  he  was  called 
to  the  cabinet  of  President  Grant,  hold- 
ing the  high  position  of  Secretary  of 
State  for  eight  years.  Through  his  skill- 
ful and  untiring  efforts  a  peaceful  settle- 
ment of  the  Alabama  claims  was  made, 
through  the  Treaty  of  Washington  in  1871  and 
the  subsequent  Geneva  Arbitration  in  1872. 
He  became  president  general  of  the  Order  of 
the  Cincinnati  in  1854,  and  so  continued  until 
his  death.  He  was  also  president  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  of  the  Union  League 
Club,  and  of  the  United  Railroad  and  Canal 
Company  (if  New  Jersey,  and  from  1859  ur>til 
1803  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Columbia  College.  Governor  Fish  served  re- 
peatedly as  a  delegate  from  the  Diocese  of 
New  York  to  the  Triennial  Conventions  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  devoted 
much  of  his  time  to  the  study  of  and  became 
an  authority  in  respect  to  the  canon  law  of  the 
church.  After  a  long,  extremely  active,  and 
useful  life,  Mr.  Fish  passed  away  at  the  age  of 
eighty-five  years,  on  September  7.  1893,  at  his 
country  seat,  "Glenclyffe,"  near  Garrison,  in 
Putnam  county,  New  York. .  leaving  behind 
him  the  memory  of  a  patriotic  citizen  and 
an  upright,  able  and  honorable  man.  Mr.  Fish 
built  and  for  more  than  forty  years  lived  in 
a  house  at  the  corner  of  Second  avenue  and 
Seventeenth  street,  fronting  on  Stuyvesant 
Square,  the  land  occupied  by  which  public 
park  had  been  given  to  the  city  by  his  uncle, 
Mr.  Peter  G  Stuyvesant.  The  site  of  Mr. 
Fish's  house  and  garden  is  now  that  of  the 
Maternity  Hospital.  His  country  seat.  "Glen- 
clyffe." embraced  the  famous  "Beverley 
House,"  which  had  been  the  headquarters  of 
General   Benedict  Arnold  at  the  time  of  the 


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detection  of  his  treason  and  from  which  he 
had  fled  to  the  British. 

Hamilton  Fish  married,  December  17,  1836, 
Julia,  daughter  of  1'eter  Kean,  of  Ursino,  near 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey.  Children:  Sarah 
Morris,  married  Sidney  Webster;  Elizabeth 
Stuyvesant,  married  Frederic  S.  <  i.  d'Haute- 
ville;  Julia  Kean,  married  Colonel  S.  N.  Ben- 
jamin, of  the  United  States  army;  Susan  Le- 
Roy,  married  William  E.  Rogers;  Nicholas; 
Hamilton  ;  Stuyvesant,  and  Edith  Livingston, 
married  (  diver  Northcote. 

(VIII)  Tlie  eldest  son,  Nicholas,  born  in 
New  York,  February  19,  1846,  graduated  from 
Columbia  College  in  1867  and  from  the  Dane 
Law  School  of  Harvard  in  [869.  In  1871  he 
was  second  secretary  of  the  United  States 
legation  in  Berlin,  and  first  secretary  in  1874 
From  1877  to  1881  he  was  charge  d'aft'airs  to 
the  Swiss  Confederation,  and  Minister  to  Bel- 
gium, [882-86.  He  was  subsequently  engaged 
in  banking  and  financial  affairs  in  New  York. 
He  married  Clemence  S.  I'.ryce,  and  had  chil- 
dren :  Elizabeth  S.  Claire,  who  was  married 
to  Robert  Burnside  Potter;  and  Hamilton. 

(  VIII)  The  second  son,  Hamilton  (2)  Fish, 
was  born  April  17,  1849,  in  Albany,  while  his 
father  was  governor,  and  graduated  from  Col- 
umbia College  in  1869.  For  two  years  he 
served  as  secretary  to  his  father,  who  was  then 
Secretary  of  State.  In  1873  he  graduated 
from  the  law  school  of  Columbia  College,  and 
served  several  terms  as  member  of  assembly 
from  Putnam  county.  New  York.  He  was 
aide-de-camp  on  the  staff  of  Governor  John 
A.  Dix,  and  was  a  leader  in  the  Republican 
party,  serving  repeatedly  as  chairman  of  im- 
portant committees  of  the  legislature,  and  in 
1895  and  1896  as  speaker.  In  1884  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Conven- 
tion. He  was  United  States  Assistant  Treas- 
urer at  New  York  from  1903  to  1908,  and 
Member  of  Congress  from  1909  to  191 1.  He 
married  (  first  )  in  1XX0,  Emily  M.,  daughter 
of  Hon.  Francis  N.  Mann,  of  Troy,  New 
York,  and  they  had  five  children,  lie  married 
(secondly)  in  [912,  Florence  Delaplaine,  the 
widow  of  Gustav  Amsinck. 

(VIII)  The  youngest  son,  Stuyvesant,  was 
born  June  24,  1851,  in  New  York,  and  gradu- 
ated from  Columbia  College  in  187 1.  In  Oc- 
tober, 1871,  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  New 
York  office  of  the  Illinois  Central  railroad, 
serving  as  private  secretary  to  W.  II.  Osborn, 


chairman,  and  later  in  Chicago  to  John  Newell 
president  of  that  company.  From  1872  tc 
1876  he  was  connected  with  the  banking  house 
of  Morton,  Bliss  &  Company  in  New  York 
and  Morton,  Rose  &  Company,  in  London 
From  1877  onward  he  devoted  himself  chief!) 
to  railroad  affairs.  He  became  a  director  oi 
the  Illinois  Central  railroad,  March  16,  1877 
vice-president  in  1883,  and  advanced  to  th< 
presidency  May  18,  1887,  and  continuing  ir 
that  position  until  November  7,  1906.  He  i; 
now  interested  in  other  railroads.  Like  hii 
father,  he  has  long  been  a  trustee  of  th< 
New  York  Life  Insurance  and  Trust  Cum 
pany.  He  is  a  director  of  the  National  Pari 
Bank  and  other  financial  corporations  Hi 
was  a  member  of  the  Monetary  Commissioi 
created  by  the  Indianapolis  Monetary  Con 
ference  in  1897;  was  president  of  the  Ameri 
can  Railway  Association  in  1904-6,  and  chair 
man  of  the  Seventh  International  Railwa; 
Congress,  held  at  Washington  in  1905.  Mr 
Fish  is  identified  with  many  clubs,  includinf 
the  Union,  Metropolitan,  Downtown,  and  i: 
a  member  of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society  of  Nev 
York,  of  which  his  father  was  one  of  thi 
founders. 

He  married.  June  1,  1876,  Marian  G.  An 
thon,  and  they  have  three  children.  Mrs.  Fisl 
is  the  daughter  of  William  Henry  Anthon,  om 
of  the  prominent  members  of  the  New  Yorl 
bar,  born  1827,  in  New  York,  died  in  1875 
In  1851  Mr.  Anthon  was  a  member  of  the  Nev 
York  Assembly,  and  during  the  Civil  War 
judge  advocate  general  on  the  staff  of  Gov 
ernor  Edwin  D.  Morgan.  His  grandfather 
Dr.  George  Christian  Anthon,  was  a  native  0 
Germany,  who  entered  the  British  army  am 
attained  the  rank  of  surgeon-general,  serving 
from  the  commencement  of  the  French  Wa 
until  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War 
In  1784  he  resigned  from  the  British  servie 
and  settled  in  New  York.  His  son.  Join 
Anthon,  was  born  in  1784,  in  Detroit,  Michi 
gan,  and  died  in  New  York  in  1863.  Graduat 
ing  from  Columbia  College  in  1801,  he  studiei 
law,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Nev 
York  Law  Institute,  which  he  served  as  presi 
dent,  and  was  author  of  numerous  law  re 
ports  and  treatises.  It  was  largelv  through  hi 
efforts  that  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  Yorl 
City  was  established.  During  the  War  o 
1812  he  commanded  a  comnany  of  militia  an< 
served  in  defense  of  the  city.     His  son,  Wil 


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liam   Henry,  was    father  of   Mrs.   Stuyvesant 
Fish,  as  above  noted. 


George  Sullivan  Ludlow   was 
LUDLOW     born    at    Neshanic,    Somerset 

county,  New  Jersey,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1873.  His  family  removed  to  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  in  1888,  where 
he  prepared  for  college  and  entered  Rutgers 
in  1891.  In  college  he  won  distinction  in 
athletics,  particularly  in  football,  and  also  in 
his  studies,  and  graduated  with  honors  in  1895, 
taking  the  degree  of  A.B.  He  entered  the 
New  York  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1895, 
and  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1897  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  York  State  shortly  thereafter.  In 
1898  he  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  from 
Rutgers  College.  Since  his  admission  to  the 
bar  Mr.  Ludlow  has  devoted  himself  to  the 
practice  of  law  in  all  the  New  York  State 
and  United  States  Courts.  He  married,  De- 
cember 1,  1908,  Grace  D.  Fackler,  daughter 
of  George  W.  and  Fanny  ( Trimble )  Fackler. 
and  has  one  daughter,  Hope  Ludlow,  born 
January  4,  1913.  Mr.  Ludlow  is  an  enthus- 
iastic golfer  and  is  a  member  of  the  Engle- 
wood  Country  Club  and  the  Deal  Golf  and 
Country  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  New  York 
and  of  the  Manhattan  Club.  Mr.  Ludlow 
comes  of  a  very  old  and  distinguished  English 
family,  which  first  came  to  New  York  City 
in  1694,  and  he  is  the  first  of  his  direct  line 
'to  return  to  New  York  City  as  a  place  of  resi- 
dence since  his  ancestor,  John  Ludlow,  re- 
moved to  New  Jersey  in  1734.  Few  families 
in  the  United  States,  certoinlv  none  in  this 
state,  can  trace  their  descent  back  to  noble 
and  even  royal  ancestors  with  more  certainty 
than  the  Ludlows.  The  genealogy,  descending 
from  King  Edward  III.  of  England,  is  clear 
and  exact. 

The  name  "Lude-lawe"  in  Saxon  means 
"lude,"  a  ford,  and  "lawe"  or  "lowe,"  low 
ground.  In  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Confes- 
sor "Ludelawe"  was  held  by  "Saisi  the  Sax- 
on," and  at  Domesday  Survey  it  was  held  by 
Roger  de  Laci  from  Osberne  Fitz  Richard, 
who  held  it  in  chief  from  the  crown.  Lude- 
lawe Castle  was  built  by  Roger  de  Laci  about 
the  year  1086,  and  stands  on  a  hill  just  above 
the  old  town  of  Ludelawe,  which  is  clustered 


on  low  ground  just  around  the  ford  from 
which  it  derives  its  name.  The  present  family 
of  Ludlow  appears  to  owe  its  origin  to  (I) 
Simon  de  Ludelawe,  who  flourished  in  the 
reign  of  Stephen,  1135-1154,  and  was  father 
of  (II)  Turstino  (Thurstan),  filius  Simonis, 
castellan  of  Ludelawe  Castle  in  1177.  His 
successors,  and,  presumably  his  eldest  male 
line,  as  the  office  appears  to  have  been  heredi- 
tary, were  (III)  Willelmus,  (IV)  Rogerius, 
(V)  Rogerius  Tunerius,  (VI)  Willelmus, 
(VII)  Henricus^  and  (VIII)  Matthew  de 
Ludelawe,  castellan  of  Ludelawe  Castle  in 
1229,  who  married  Petronilla,  daughter  of 
Norman  de  Swineton  and  Matilda  de  Misec, 
feudal  lords  of  Ludelawe  Castle  at  that  time 

(IX)  Nicholas  de  Ludelawe,  son  of  Mat- 
thew de  Ludelawe,  was  a  merchant  and  a  man 
of  great  wealth.  He  was  much  thought  of  by 
Edward  I.  who,  in  1276,  appointed  him  one 
of  the  special  proctors  to  receive  the  sum  of 
£4755  17s.  sterling  from  Margaret,  Countess 
of  Flanders,  due  to  merchants  of  England  for 
wool  exported  into  Holland.  His  son,  John, 
was  burgess  of  Shrewsbury  and  Coventry,  and 
Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford.  His 
son,  Thomas,  was  knighted  by  Edward  I.  for 
distinguished  services  in  the  Welch  and  Scot- 
tish wars. 

(X)  Lawrence  de  Ludelawe,  son  of  Nicho- 
las de  Ludelawe,  succeeded  his  father  in  busi- 
ness as  a  wool  merchant.  He  became  very 
wealthy,  and  in  1281  purchased  the  manor  of 
Stoke  Say,  County  Salop.  He  was  appointed 
one  of  the  three  commissioners  to  take  4,000 
marks  to  France  to  Henry,  Count  de  Bar, 
brother-in-law  of  Edward  I. 

(XI)  William  de  Ludelawe,  son  of  Law 
rence  de  Ludelawe,  was  a  member  of  Parlia- 
ment from  Salop  in  1307,  assessor  for  the 
counties  of  Hereford  and  Salop,  burgess  of 
Shrewsbury,  justice  of  the  peace  for  Salop, 
and  a  judge  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  from  1313 
to  his  death  in  1316.  His  son,  Thomas,  was 
appointed  recorder  of  the  City  of  London, 
November  20,  1362,  and  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, May  7,  1378. 

(XII)  Sir  Lawrence  de  Ludeiawe  of  Stoke 
Say,  Hodnet  and  Great  Merkeley,  son  of  Wil- 
liam de  Ludelawe,  was  born  March  2,  1301. 
He  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  of 
the  wool  trade  by  Edward  III  In  1349  he 
founded  the  House  of  St.  Mary's  of  the 
White  (Carmelite)   Friars.     He  died  October 


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14,  1353.  His  son  and  heir.  Sir  John  de  Lude- 
lawe,  was  born  May  6,  1320,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 17,  1382.  He  was  high  sheriff  of  Salop, 
justice  of  the  peace  for  Worcester,  one  of 
the  assessors  and  commissioners  of  array  for 
Salop  and  was  knighted  by  Edward  III.  for 
long  and  faithful  service  to  the  king. 

(XIII )  Roger,  or  Robert,  de  Ludelawe,  sec- 
ond son  of  Sir  Lawrence  de  I  udelawe,  was 
high  sheriff  of  Salop  in  1379  and  1388,  and 
justice  of  the  peace  in  1389 

(XIV)  Sir  William  de  Ludelawe,  son  of 
Roger  or  Robert  dc  Ludelawe,  was  one  of  the 
deputy  butlers  to  Henry  IV.,  1 399-1412.  His 
son,  Richard,  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath 
by  Henry  VI. 

(XV)  William  de  Ludlowe,  son  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam de  Ludelawe,  was  one  of  the  "Servitors 
of  the  Cellar"  to  Henry  V.  in  1414.  and  "Yeo- 
man of  the  Cellar"  to  Henry  VI.  in  1427.  He 
acquired  the  estate  of  Hill  Deverell,  which 
remained  in  the  family  for  over  two  centuries. 
He  was  parker  of  the  Royal  Park  at  Ludgers- 
hall,  and  represented  that  borough  in  Parlia- 
ment. He  also  occupied  many  other  positions 
of  honor  and  trust. 

(XVI)  John  Ludlowe,  of  Hill  Deverell,  son 
of  William  de  Ludlowe,  was  constable  of 
Carrisbroke  Castle,  parker  of  the  Isle  of 
Wight,  assistant  parker  of  Ludgershall,  and 
mayor  of  Southampton  in  1478. 

('XVII)  John  Ludlowe.  of  Hill  Deverell, 
son  of  John  Ludlowe,  married  Philippa, 
daughter  of  William  Bulstrode,  of  London, 
and   died   in    151Q. 

(XVIII)  William  Ludlowe,  of  Hill 
Deverell,  son  of  John  Ludlowe,  married  Joane, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Moore,  of  Withford, 
County  Hants,  and  died  in  1533. 

(XIX)  George  Ludlowe,  of  Hill  Deverell. 
son  of  William  Ludlowe.  was  high  sheriff 
of  Wilts  in  155')  He  married  Edith,  third 
daughter  of  Andrew,  first  Lord  Windsor,  who 
through  her  mother  could  trace  a  lineal  descent 
from  Edward  III.  and  Philippa  of  Hainault. 
Their  third  son,  Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  de 
Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  had  Philippa  Plan- 
tagenet  who  married  Edmund  Mortimer,  Earl 
of  March.  Thev  had  Elizabeth  Mortimer, 
who  married  Sir  Henry  Percy,  surnamed 
Hotspur,"  whose  son  Henrv,  second  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  married  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  Ralph  Neville,  first  Earl  of  Westmoreland, 


and  had  Henry,  third  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, who  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Richard,  Lord  Poynings,  and  had  Eleanor 
Percy  who  married  Sir  Reginald,  fourth  Lord 
West  and  seventh  Lord  De  la  Warr.  Lord 
West  was  also  of  royal  descent  in  the  direct 
line  from  Edward  I.  and  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Philip  IV.  of  France.  Their  daughter. 
Margaret  West,  married  Thomas,  Lord  Ech- 
ingham,  and  had  Margaret  Echingham.  who 
married  William  Blount  and  had  Elizabeth 
Blount,  who  married  Andrew,  first  Lord 
Windsor,  and  had  Edith  who  married,  as 
stated  above,  George  Ludlowe,  who  died  in 
1580.  His  eldest  son  was  Sir  Edmund  Lud- 
lowe from  whom  descended  the  Earls  of  Lud- 
low, and  the  famous  Lieutenant-General  Ed- 
mund Ludlow,  who  was  one  of  the  judges  whe 
tried  and  condemned  Charles  I.,  and  Lieuten- 
ant Philip  Ludlow,  who  served  in  Admira! 
Blake's  fleet  and  was  buried  in  Westminstei 
Abbey. 

(XX)  Thomas  Ludlowe,  the  younger  sor 
of  George  Ludlowe.  acquired  the  estate  ol 
Baycliffe  in  the  parish  of  Dinton,  Count) 
Wilts.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  sister  of  Sir  Gabriel  Pyle.  He  died  ir 
1607.  His  third  son,  Roger,  came  to  New 
England  with  his  youngest  brother,  George 
in  the  "Mary  and  John"  in  May,  1630.  H< 
was  assistant  to  Governor  Winthrop,  1630- 
34,  deputy  governor  of  Massachusetts  Baj 
Colony.  1634-35,  first  deputy  governor  of  Con- 
necticut, 1636,  and  member  of  Council  o: 
United  Colonies  of  New  England,  1651-53 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  t  iovernor  Johr 
Endicott.  lie  was  the  ancestor  of  Israel  am 
John  Ludlow,  the  founders  of  Cincinnati 
Ohio,  and  of  Governor  and  Supreme  Cour 
Justice.  George  C.  Ludlow,  of  New  lersey 
His  youngest  brother,  George,  went  to  Yir 
ginia,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Gov 
ernor's  Council  from  1642  until  his  death  ii 
1656.  He  owned  17,000  acres  in  York  anc 
(  iloucester  counties,  and  in  his  will  he  be 
queathed  his  sixteenth  part  of  the  ship  "May 
flower"  to  his  nephew,  Thomas  Ludlow,  anc 
ten  pounds  to  captain  Augustine  Warner 
great-grandfather  of  George  Washington. 

(XXI)  Thomas  Ludlow,  son  of  Thoma: 
Ludlowe,  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Johr 
Bennett,  of  Steeple  Ashton  and  Smallbrooke 
County  Wilts,  and  died  in  1646. 


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(XXII)  Gabriel  Ludlow,  son  of  Thomas 
Ludlow,  married  Martha  Gary  at  Castle  Cary, 
County  Somerset,  in  1662. 

(XXIII)  Gabriel  Ludlow,  son  of  Gabriel 
Ludlow,  was  born  at  Castle  Cary,  November 
2,  1663,  and  came  to  New  York,  November 
24,  1694.  He  was  a  merchant  and  also  clerk 
in  Governor  Bellomont's  office  in  1698.  He 
was  clerk  of  the  Assembly  in  1699,  a  vestry- 
man of  Trinity  Parish,  1696-98,  and  a  revenue 
officer  of  the  Port  of  New  York  in  1722.  He 
married,  in  Old  Trinity,  on  April  5,  1697, 
Sarah  Hanmer,  daughter  of  Rev  Joseph  Han- 
mer,  D.D.,  the  first  Episcopal  minister  in  New 
York.  This  lady  was  also  of  royal  lineage 
by  direct  descent  from  Humphrey,  fourth  son 
of  Henry  IV. 

(XXIV)  John  Ludlow,  third  son  of  Gabriel 
Ludlow,  was  born  January  20,  1706.  He  mar- 
ried Susannah,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Brad- 
bury. In  1734  he  removed  to  New  Jersey, 
and  in  1739  Governor  Lewis  Morris  appointed 
him  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  and 
quarter  sessions  for  Essex  county.  He  died 
November  4,  1775. 

(XXV)  Richard  Ludlow,  fifth  son  of  John 
Ludlow,  was  born  August  17,  1745.  He  served 
during  the  Revolutionary  War  as  Major  and 
Commissary  of  Issues,  Commissary  General's 
Department,  New  Jersey  Militia.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Van  Nos- 
trand.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth  Van 
Camp,  and  died  November  20,  1820. 

(XXVI)  John  Richard  Ludlow,  eldest  child 
of  Richard  Ludlow,  was  born  August  5,  1769. 
He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Vreeland.  He 
married  (second)  Catalina  Ditmars,  and  died 
April  14,  1849. 

(XXVII)  Gabriel  Ludlow,  third  son  of 
John  Richard  Ludlow,  was  born  April  23, 
1797.  He  was  graduated  from  Union  College 
in  1817,  and  later  from  the  New  Brunswick- 
Theological  Seminary,  which  conferred  on  him 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  1850.  He 
was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Neshanic,  New 
Jersey,  September  5,  1821,  and  held  the  pas- 
torate until  his  death,  February  19,  1878.  It 
is  one  of  the  record  pastorates  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  Church  and  it  is  remarkable  that  he 
ministered  to  the  children,  grandchildren  and 
great-grandchildren  of  those  who  were  present 
at  his  ordination.  He  married  Susan  Rapelyea, 
June  22,  1820,  and  had  the  following  children: 


Elizabeth  Vreeland  Ludlow,  Dr.  Jacob  Rapel- 
yea Ludlow,  Mary  Rapelyea  Ludlow,  Dr.  John 
Richard,  Anna  Phoebe,  Susan,  Dr.  Richard 
Gabriel  Ludlow,  and  Caroline.  His  brother, 
John  Ludlow,  was  also  a  celebrated  divine 
in  the  same  church.  He  was  graduated  from 
Union  College  in  1814  and  from  the  New 
Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  in  1817.  He 
was  professor  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Ec- 
clesiastical History  in  the  New  Brunswick 
Theological  Seminary,  1819-23,  and  Provost  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  from  1834  to 
1854,  and  later  again  professor  in  the  New 
Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  and  in  Rut- 
gers College.  Union  College  gave  him  the  de- 
gree of  D.D.  in  1827,  and  LL.D.  later  on. 
James  Reily  Ludlow,  son  of  John  Ludlow,  was 
graduated  from  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1843,  which  institution  gave  him  the  degree 
of  LL.D.  in  1870.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Philadelphia  Bar  in  1846,  and  in  1857  was 
chosen  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
serving  until  1875.  Although  a  Democrat  he 
was  twice  elected  by  votes  of  all  parties.  In 
1875,  under  the  new  constitution,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  President  Judgeship  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas,  serving  until  his  death  in 
1886. 

(XXVIII)  Richard  Gabriel  Ludlow,  third 
son  of  Gabriel  Ludlow,  was  born  May  29, 
1840.  He  entered  Rutgers  College  in  the  class 
of  1862  but  left  before  graduat'on  to  take  up 
the  study  of  medicine  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  received  the  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1863.  After 
graduation  he  served  as  resident  physician  at 
the  Blockley  Hospital  in  Philadelphia  for  a 
year,  and  thereafter  served  the  Union  cause 
in  the  Civil  War  as  surgeon  for  over  a  year. 
After  the  war  he  settled  at  his  old  home  in 
Neshanic,  New  Jersey,  where  he  practiced  his 
profession  until  his  untimely  death  by  accident 
on  December  5,  1879.  He  married  Jeannette 
Rapelyea  Van  Camp,  daughter  of  Tunis  and 
Ida  (Schenck)  Van  Camp,  in  1868,  and  had 
the  following  three  sons:  John  Van  Camp 
Ludlow,  born  April  29,  1870,  and  died  just 
after  he  had  entered  Rutgers  College  in  1889; 
Gabriel  Ludlow  was  born  May  29,  1872,  and 
was  graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in  1895. 
He  married  Louise  Richards,  daughter  of  Wil- 
lard  and  Anna  (Randolph)  Richards,  in  1900, 
and  has  two  sons,  Willard  Richards  Ludlow, 
born    March    15,    1902,   and   Richard    Gabriel 


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Ludlow,  burn   May  23,    1912.      He   resides  at 
Mai  mi,  ( ieorgia. 

(  XXIX  )  <  ieorge  Sullivan  Ludlow,  third  son 
of  Richard  Gabriel  Ludlow,  the  subject  of 
the  above  sketch. 


Hon.        Alphonso       T. 

CLEARWATER  Clearwater,  of  King- 
stem,  New  York,  prom- 
inent as  a  lawyer  and  jurist,  historian  and  an- 
tiquarian, is  descended  from  ancestors  long 
prominent  in  the  annals  of  Holland  and 
France,  who  were  noted  for  their  patriotism 
and  liberal  contributions  to  the  cause  of  re- 
ligion and  learning. 

The  present  form  of  the  name  (  Clearwater, 
was  adopted  in  this  country  about  the  begin 
ning  of  the  nineteenth  century,  being  angli- 
cised from  the  original  form  of  Klaarwater,  as 
it  exists  in  Holland  at  this  day  There  are  as 
well  changes  in  the  spelling  of  the  family 
names  of  his  other  ancestors.  In  France,  Deyo 
was  spelled  Doiau,  and  the  American  patentee 
used  the  latter  form.  The  original  form  of 
Tromper  is  yet  in  use  in  Holland,  though  there 
it  frequently  appears  as  Tromp :  it  was  angli- 
cised to  Trumpbour  about  the  time  that 
Klaarwater  became  Clearwater.  The  original 
French  name  of  Boudouin  is  retained  in 
France;  here  it  was  anglicised  to  Bowdoin  in 
the  eighteenth  century.  There  are  many  vari- 
ant spellings  of  these  names,  there  being 
twenty-seven  different  ways  of  spelling  Deyo, 
and  almost  as  many  of  spelling  Clearwater, 
Bi  iudoin  and  Tromper. 

In  the  fifteenth  century  the  Clear,waters  had 
large  and  valuable  possessions  in  the  vicinity 
of  llattem,  Holland,  where  a.  d.  1414  they 
built  a  cattle,  and  with  it  a  cloister  which  was 
dedicated  by  Roedericus,  Bishop  of  Utrecht, 
and  devoted  to  the  Sisters  of  the  <  >rder  of  St 
Benedict.  It  was  known  as  the  Kloster  Klaar- 
water, and  was  the  home  of  the  Benedictines 
until  late  in  the  seventeenth  century.  At  the 
time  of  the  Reformation  in  Holland  it  was 
the  only  cloister  the  inmates  of  which  escaped 
the  censure  of  the  Reformed  Church.  An  in- 
teresting historical  account  of  it  has  been 
published  in  Holland. 

Theunis  Jacobson  Klaarwater,  a  member  of 
this  ancient  family,  left  Holland  in  the  latter 
half  of  the  seventeenth  century  and  with  his 
son  Jacob  came  to  America,  settling  in  LHster 
county,   New   York.     On  May  24.   1701),  with 


Colonel  William  Peartree,  Governor  Rip  Vai 
Dam,  Adolphus  Philipse,  Dr.  Gerardus  Beek 
man,  Hendrick  Vernooye  and  Abraham  Deyo 
he  and  his  son  Jacob  obtained  from  Oueer 
Anne  the  grant  cf  a  patent  of  four  thousanc 
acres  of  land  in  what  was  then  the  town  o 
Shawangunk.  Jacob  married  Marie,  daughtei 
of  Pierre  Deyo,  one  of  the  Huguenot  patentee: 
of  New  Paltz,  he  being  the  first  Dutchman  t( 
marry  into  the  Huguenot  families  of  that  set 
tlement.  Their  son  Abraham,  who  was  bap 
tized  by  the  pastor  of  the  Huguenot  Churcl 
of  New  Paltz,  July  3,  1699  wa-  Judge  Clear 
water's  great-great-grandfather 

On  his  mother's  side.  Judge  Clearwater  i: 
descended  from  Jacob  Tromper,  who  was  ; 
great  Dutch  ship  owner,  and  a  city  counselloi 
of  Rotterdam,  Holland,  from  1524  to  1540 
schepen,  1527-29-32;  city  treasurer  from  153; 
to  1539;  and  burgomaster  of  that  city  fron 
1527  to  1532.  In  1533  he  was  unanimous!} 
chosen  head  of  the  Orphans  Commission  o' 
Rotterdam,  which  looked  after  its  still  famoui 
orphan  asylums,  the  homes  of  the  orphar 
children  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  Holland 
He  discharged  these  public  and  official  duties 
without  compensation,  quietly,  and  quaintl} 
saying,  "Heaven  and  Holland  have  done  mucr 
for  me.  and  I  must  do  a  little  bit  ( kleyi 
beetje)  to  help  pay  back."  The  Tromper; 
were  regarded  as  among  the  most  public  spir- 
ited and  enterprising  citizens  of  the  Nether- 
lands. 

Nicolas  Tromper  came  to  America  late  ir 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  married  Jeanne 
Boudouin,  a  descendant  of  Pierre  Boudouin 
the  distinguished  Huguenot  whose  estates  wen 
confiscated  and  who  was  exiled  from  France 
at  the  time  of  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  oi 
Nantes  in  1685,  and  from  them  Judge  Clear- 
water's mother,  Emily  Boudouin.  daughter  ol 
Peter  Tromper  and  Jeanne  Corquet,  was  de- 
scended. Among  other  descendants  of  Pierre 
Boudouin  were  James  Boudouin,  founder  oi 
Bowdoin  College ;  and  Robert  C.  Winthrop  of 
Massachusetts. 

Judge  Clearwater  was  born  at  West  Point 
New  York.  September  11.  1848,  his  father. 
Isaac  Clearwater,  being  there  under  designa- 
tion by  the  Secretary  of  War  to  superintend 
the  buildings  then  being  constructed  at  the 
Military  Academy  under  the  Act  of  Congress. 
He  was  educated  at  the  famous  old  Anthon 
Latin   Grammar   School   in  the  City  of   New 


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York,  and  at  the  Kingston  (New  York) 
Academy.  He  studied  law  at  Kingston,  with 
Senator  Jacob  Hardenburgh  and  Judge  Au- 
gustus Schoonmaker,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  November,  1871.  His  notable  public 
career  began  in  1877,  when  he  was  elected  dis- 
trict attorney  of  Ulster  county ;  he  was  re- 
elected in  1880  and  a  third  time  in  1883.  In 
1884  and  1886  he  declined  the  nomination  for 
congress  in  the  Ulster-Greene-Delaware  dis- 
trict. In  1889  he  was  elected  county  judge  of 
Ulster   county,    and   re-elected    in    1895.       In 

)8,  Alton  B.  Parker,  having  been  elected 
chief  judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  Judge 
Clearwater  was  appointed  by  Governor  Black- 
to  be  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  Judge 
Parker's  stead.  In  1909  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Hughes  a  member  of  the  New  York 
State  Probation  Commission  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy created  by  the  resignation  of  Felix 
Warburg,  was  reappointed  by  Governor 
Hughes  for  the  full  term,  and  subsequently 
appointed  for  another  full  term  by  Governor 
Sulzer  in  1913. 

Judge  Clearwater  has  been  notably  active 
in  public  affairs  aside  from  his  professional 
and  official  career.  He  is  a  trustee  of  Rutgers 
College,  and  chairman  of  the  library  commit- 
tee of  the  board ;  he  was  a  delegate  of  the 
New  York  State  Bar  Association  to  the  Uni- 
versal Congress  of  Lawyers  and  Jurists,  held 
in  connection  with  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Ex- 
position at  St.  Louis  in  1904;  he  is  and  has 
been  for  several  years  chairman  of  the  law 
reform  committee  of  that  association ;  is 
chairman  of  its  committee  to  suggest  reform  in 
the  introduction  of  medical  expert  testimony 
in  civil  and  criminal  trials ;  and  at  the  request 
of  the  editor  of  the  North  American  Review 
wrote  an  article  upon  "Medical  Expert  Tes- 
timony," which  appeared  in  the  June,  1909, 
number  of  that  publication.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  joint  committees  of  the  New  York 
State  Bar  Association,  the  New  State  Medical 
Society,  the  Homoeopathic  Medical  Society  of 
New  York,  the  Academy  of  Medicine  of  New 
York  City,  and  the  Society  of  Medical  Juris- 
prudence, to  urge  the  passage  by  the  legisla- 
ture of  New  York  of  a  law  regulating  the  in- 
troduction of  such  testimony  in  courts  of  jus- 
tice;  is  chairman  of  the  committee  of  the 
New  York  State  Bar  Association,  to  suggest 
matters  to  be  brought  to  the  attention  and  for 
the  consideration  of  the  aproaching  Constitu- 


tional Convention  to  be  held  in  1916  to  re- 
vise the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  New 
York ;  and  is  a  member  of  the  committee  upon 
workmen's  compensation  of  the  Association. 
To  the  subject  of  workmen's  compensation. 
he  has  devoted  much  time  and  thought,  fami- 
liarizing himself  with  the  workmen's  compen- 
sation acts  of  the  different  states  of  the  Union, 
and  of  Great  Britain  and  the  countries  of  con- 
tinental Europe.  He  made  strong  addresses 
upon  this  subject  at  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  New  York  State  Bar  Association  in  1912 
and  1913. 

Judge  Clearwater  was  appointed  by  the  gov- 
ernor of  New  York  a  member  of  the  Hudson- 
Fulton  Celebration  Commission  in  1906,  and 
in  1907  edited  an  authoritative  history  of  Ul- 
ster County.  At  the  request  of  David  Dudley 
Field,  he  prepared  many  of  the  provisions  of 
the  Penal  Code  and  the  Code  of  Criminal 
Procedure  of  New  York.  In  1895  he  was  ap- 
pointed commissioner  to  supenise  the  trans- 
lation from  Dutch  into  English  of  the  Dutch 
records  of  Ulster  county  (1664-84).  and 
completed  the  work  in  1898.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  and  the  first  vice-president  for 
Ulster  county  of  the  Holland  Society,  was 
president  of  that  society  in  191 1,  and  now  is 
one  of  its  trustees.  He  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers and  since  its  formation  has  been  a  vice- 
president  of  the  Huguenot  Society  of  America  ; 
is  president  of  the  following  organizations: 
The  Farm  Bureau  of  Ulster  County,  the  Old 
Senate  House  Association  of  Kingston,  the 
Ulster  Historical  Society,  the  Ulster  County 
Bar  Association,  the  Ulster  County  Bible  So- 
ciety, and  the  Wi'twyck  Rural  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  member  and  one  of  the  man- 
agers of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society  of  the  City 
of  New  York;  member  of  the  American  Bar 
Association,  and  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution ;  an  honorary  member  of  the 
St.  Andrew's  Society  of  Charleston,  South 
Carolina ;  a  life  member  of  the  Huguenot  So- 
ciety of  South  Carolina,  and  in  191 1,  at  the 
request  of  that  society,  delivered  at  Charles- 
ton the  commemorative  address  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  celebration  of  the  two  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  founding  of  civic  govern- 
ment by  the  Huguenots  in  South  Carolina ;  is 
a  member  of  the  Huguenot  Society  of  New 
Paltz ;  a  member  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society  of 
London ;  a  member  of  the  American  Peace 
Society,    the    New    York    Peace    Society,    the 


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American  Scenic  and  Historic  Preservation 
Society,  the  Historical  Society  of  Newburgh 
Bay  and  the  Highlands,  the  Minnisink  His- 
torical Society  ;  and  is  a  corresponding  member 
of  the  historical  societies  of  many  states.  In 
191 1,  he  was  made  an  honorary  fellow  for  life 
of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  in  recognition  of  his  loans 
of  old  American  silver  to  that  museum,  and  a 
like  member  of  the  American  Numismatic 
Society. 

He  has  delivered  and  is  the  author  of  many 
valuable  monographs  He  delivered  the  ad- 
dress at  the  opening  of  the  great  Protestant 
Mission  at  Menilmontant,  Paris,  France,  in 
June,  1888;  and  the  response  to  the  address 
of  welcome  to  the  Holland  Society  made  by 
the  burgomaster  of  Rotterdam,  Holland,  on 
the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  the  Holland  So- 
ciety to  that  country  in  the  same  year.  He 
is  a  contributor  to  the  North  American  Re- 
view, and  is  and  has  been  an  extensive  con- 
tributor to  the  historical  literature  of  New 
York.  I  te  is  author  of :  "The  Influence  of  the 
Dutch  and  Huguenots  in  the  Formation  of  the 
American  Republic,"  "Louis  XIV.  and  the 
Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,"  "The 
Huguenot  Settlement  at  New  Paltz,  in  Ulster 
County,"  "Huguenot  Medals  in  the  British 
Museum,"  "Founders  of  New  Amsterdam," 
"The  Dutchmen  of  Albany  and  the  Iroquois," 
"Dutch  Governors  of  New  York,"  "The  Jur- 
ists of  Holland,"  "Lord  North  and  the  Ameri- 
can Colonists,"  "Ulster  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,"  "The  Adoption  of  the  First  Con- 
stitution of  New  York,  at  Kingston.  1777." 
"The  Struggle  for  the  Highlands  During  the 
War  of  the  Revolution,"  "The  Inaugural  of 
George  Clinton,  the  First  Constitutional  Gov- 
ernor of  New  York,  at  Kingston."  He  has 
delivered  notable  memorial  addresses  upon  the 
life  and  services  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  General 
Ulysses  S.  Grant,  and  William  McKinley ;  an 
address  upon  "Ulster  in  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion," "Protest  Against  the  Destruction  of 
the  City  Hall  of  New  York,"  "The  Significance 
of  Dutch  Local  Names,"  "Antiquity  of  Free 
Masonry,"  "The  Trial  of  Christ  From  the 
Standpoint  of  a  Roman  Lawyer  of  the  Time 
of  Tiberius."  He  has  written  extensively  on 
criminological,  legal  and  public  matters,  includ- 
ing "Heredity  and  Criminal  Propensity." 
"Lombroso,  and  the  Danger  of  Sentimental 
Criminology,"  "Moral  Accountability  of  Crim- 


inals," "Goethe  and  the  Sentimentalists,"  "The 
1  >isregard  of  Law,"  "The  Deterioration  of  the 
Trial  Jury."  At  the  request  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Association  he  prepared  and 
in  September,  1913,  delivered  the  annual  ad- 
dress at  its  fifteenth  annual  meeting  at  Os- 
wego, the  subject  being  "The  Undervaluation 
of  American  Citizenship."  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  has  been  president  of  the  King- 
ston Club ;  was  one  of  the  founders  and  is 
president  of  the  Twaalfskill  Golf  Club ;  is  a 
member  of  the  Union  League,  Metropolitan 
and  Grolier  Clubs  of  New  York  City,  and  of 
the  Automobile  Club  of  America.  He  is  and 
for  many  years  has  been  a  collector  of  early 
American  silver;  much  of  his  collection  he 
has  loaned  to  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  to  the  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts  of  the  City  of  Boston.  He  has 
repeatedly  been  a  delegate  to  national,  state, 
judicial,  congressional  and  senatorial  conven- 
tions of  the  Republican  party,  with  which  he 
has  always  been  identified. 

Judge  Clearwater  has  twice  been  invited  by 
Presidents  of  the  United  States  to  accept 
diplomatic  positions  abroad,  and  frequently 
asked  by  the  Republican  party  to  become  a 
candidate  for  political  office.  He  always  has 
declined  to  accept  any  position  not  connected 
with  the  administration  of  justice,  having  fully 
determined  when  he  entered  the  bar  never 
to  embark  upon  a  political  career.  It  is  at 
the  bar,  and  upon  the  bench,  therefore,  thai 
his  most  important  work  has  been  done,  the 
record  of  which  appears  in  the  annals  of  the 
Ulster  Bar,  in  the  records  of  the  courts,  and 
in  the  volumes  published  by  the  state  oi 
New  York,  which  contain  the  decisions  of  the 
old,  general  term,  the  Appellate  Divisions  ol 
the  Supreme  Court  and  of  the  Court  of  Ap 
peals.  In  1903  he  received  the  honorary  de 
gree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  Rutgers  College 
for  distinction  in  the  public  service 

He  married,  in  1875,  Anna  Houghtaling 
Farrand,  daughter  of  Colonel  William  D.  Far- 
rand,  of  San  Francisco,  California,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Henry  Houghtaling  of  Kingston 
New  York. 


This   is   one   of   the   early    Dutcl 

CRUM     names   of   this   State  and   is   now 

spelled  differently  from  the  forrr 

used    in   the   early   church    records,   where   il 


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occurs  first  as  Krom  and  Crom.  There  are 
numerous  descendants  bearing  the  name  now 
living  in  this  State  and  New  Jersey,  who  have 
done  credit  to  a  worthy  ancestry. 

(I)  According  to  the  church  records  of  Tap- 
pan,  New  York,  Floris  Willemsen  Krom  lived 
at  one  time  in  Flatbush.  His  wife  was  Cata- 
lyntie  Ariaens  and  they  had  baptized  at  the 
Dutch  church  in  New  Amsterdam  (New 
York)  May  3,  1685,  a  daughter,  Willemyntie. 
Their  son  Dirck  (Richard)  was  baptized  No- 
vember 14,  1694.  It  is  evident  that  they  lived 
somewhere  outside  of  New  York  at  this  time. 
A  record  at  Hackensack  shows  that  their  son, 
Willem  Florisse  Crom,  was  married  there  in 
1699. 

(II)  Dirck  Crum,  son  of  Floris  Willemsen 
and  Catalyntie  (Ariaens)  Krom,  baptized  as 
above  noted  in  New  York,  resided  at  Tappan, 
New  York.  His  wife,  Catriena  Kuyper 
(Cooper)  Crum,  was  a  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Kuyper  and  his  wife,  Aeltie  (Bogert)  Kuyper 
of  Tappan  and  Schraalenburg.  Cornelius 
Kuyper  was  a  son  of  Claes  Jansen,  who  came 
in  1647  from  Permerond,  a  village  near  the 
Zuyder  Zee,  between  Amsterdam  and  Hoorn, 
Holland,  and  settled  at  Brooklyn,  where  he 
married  (first)  Pietartie  Brack  Hoengie,  of 
Gowanus.  She  died  soon  after  and  he  re- 
moved to  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  where  he  mar- 
ried (second)  November  11,  1656,  Anna  Van 
Vorst.  He  received  a  patent,  January  1,  1662, 
for  a  tract  of  land  near  Harsemus,  New  Jer- 
sey, on  which  he  settled  and  remained  until 
his  death,  November  20,  1688.  His  widow 
survived  him  many  years,  dying  January  12. 
1726.  He  was  an  active  and  prominent  citi- 
zen, a  cooper  by  trade,  hence  is  often  referred 
to  in  the  records  as  Kuyper,  and  from  this 
time  on  the  family  adopted  the  surname  now 
rendered  Cooper.  On  April  10.  1671,  he  re- 
ceived a  deed  of  two  hundred  and  forty  acres 
of  land  on  the  Hudson  River,  where  the  village 
of  Nyack  now  stands.  Subsequently  he  pur- 
chased four  hundred  and  sixty-eight  acres  of 
meadow  north  of  Nyack,  being  a  partner  in 
part  of  these  lands  with  the  Tallmans.  He  had 
fifteen  children.  The  eldest  son  Cornelius  set- 
tled at  Tappan  in  1689,  but  soon  sold  to  Tall- 
man,  and  removed  to  Schraalenburg,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  bought  two  hundred  and 
sixty-six  acres  on  the  Hackensack  River.  His 
daughter  Catriena  became  the  wife  of  Dirck 
Crum.  as  above  noted.    Children  :  Helena,  born 


October  12,  1718;  Katharyna,  August  15, 
1723;  Willemyntie,  October  9,  1725;  Dirck, 
December  16,  1728;  Cornelius,  mentioned  be- 
low; Maria,  December  26,  1735;  Johannes, 
January  5,  1740. 

(III)  Cornelius,  second  son  of  Dirck  and 
Catriena  (Kuyper)  Crum,  was  born  April  27, 
1 73 1,  and  baptized  May  30,  of  the  same  year, 
at  Tappan,  where  all  of  his  father's  children 
were  baptized,  and  settled  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York. 

(IV)  Richard,  son  of  Cornelius  Crum, 
was  born  February  4,  1763,  in  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  where  he  grew  to  manhood.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  serv- 
ing first  as  a  drummer  boy  and  later  becoming 
a  matross  in  the  Continental  artillery,  New 
York  line,  throughout  that  struggle.  He  was 
a  member  of  Captain  John  Doughty's  com- 
pany, under  Colonel  John  Lamb,  and  saw  many 
hardships.  At  one  time  he  was  stationed  witli 
a  force  at  Fort  Herkimer,  during  a  severe 
winter,  with  the  snow  attaining  a  depth  of 
more  than  four  feet.  The  soldiers  were  forced 
to  carry  wood  on  their  shoulders  from  the 
timber  a  half  mile  distant  to  keep  from  freez- 
ing. Because  of  the  great  depth  of  snow  their 
food  supply  was  very  much  reduced  and  many 
were  glad  to  get  a  crust  of  bread.  After  the 
winter  had  somewhat  moderated  a  supply  of 
cattle  was  driven  in  and  the  soldiers  fared  bet- 
ter. Their  clothing  was  ragged  and  filthy  and 
when  warmer  weather  came  every  one  engaged 
in  washing.  Two  members  of  his  squad,  Jacob 
Van  Wart  and  John  Paulding,  were  members 
of  the  party  which  captured  Major  Andre,  and 
Richard  Crum  was  present  at  the  execution  of 
that  unfortunate  officer.  He  witnessed  the  de- 
parture of  General  Arnold  in  his  boat  when 
he  went  on  board  the  English  frigate  on  the 
Hudson.  He  was  a  member  of  the  party  of 
ten  men  which  defended  a  fort  on  the  bank  of 
the  Hudson  from  an  attack  of  Hessian  soldiers, 
during  which  two  field  pieces  in  the  fort 
mowed  down  the  assaulting  party  with  grape 
shot  and  successfully  repulsed  two  attacks  in 
this  manner.  Their  fire  was  held  until  the 
Hessians  were  so  close  that  they  could  see 
them  wink  their  eyes,  and  the  suddenness  and 
deadly  character  of  the  fire  caused  a  panic  and 
compelled  a  retreat.  After  darkness  came  on 
the  cannons  were  spiked  and  the  little  garrison 
fled  up  the  river.  At  the  same  time  the  sol- 
diers were  frequently  attacked  by  Indian  allies 


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and  British,  and  Mr.  Crum  was  wont  to  say 
that  they  were  "between  the  devil  and  the 
deep  sea,"  with  red  coats  on  one  side  and  In- 
dians on  the  other.  He  often  engaged  in 
friendly  conversation  with  Indian  girls,  who 
passed  the  fort,  and  on  one  occasion  one  of 
these  gave  him  an  implement  used  by  the  In- 
dians for  skinning  deer  and  preparing  the 
hides  for  tanning.  This  implement  is  now  in 
possession  of  his  son,  and  no  one  to  whom  it 
has  been  shown  has  been  able  to  name  the  ma- 
terial of  which  it  is  made.  The  powder  horn 
in  which  he  carried  his  priming  material  for 
the  artillery  is  also  preserved  by  bis  son.  After 
the  men  were  discharged  a  barrel  of  whiskey 
was  rolled  out  for  their  use,  the  head  kno<  ked 
out  and  the  men  helped  themselves  with  their 
cups.  This  resulted  in  much  fist  fighting  and 
General  Lamb  remarked  that  he  "thought  the 
war  was  over,  but  the  bard  fighting  seemed  to 
have  just  begun."  After  the  war  Richard 
Crum  returned  to  bis  father's  home  at  Haver- 
straw,  but  soon  after  went  to  New  York 
There  he  boarded  a  schooner  for  Eatontown, 
New  Jersey,  whence  he  proceeded  to  what  was 
at  that  time  called  the  Liberty  Pole  in  Shrews- 
bury township,  Monmouth  county,  now  the 
city  of  Long  Branch. 

There  he  settled  and  married  Elizabeth  (  iard- 
ner,  born  September  14.  1768,  died  1827.  He 
died  in  1847.  Children:  1.  Deborah,  married 
Joseph  West,  a  farmer  and  fisherman  of  Long 
Branch.  2.  Nancy,  married  a  Throckmorton. 
3.  Hannah,  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  Brown, 
and  resided  in  Long  Branch.  4.  John,  a  very 
powerful  man,  standing  six  feet,  four  and  a 
half  inches  in  his  stockings.  5.  Catherine,  wife 
of  Hugh  Read,  lived  in  Long  Branch.  6. 
Gardner,  was  for  some  time  a  clergyman  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  later  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law.  7.  Jacob.  8. 
Susannah,  married  a  Baldwin.  9.  Richard,  men- 
tioned below,  to.  Elizabeth,  married  Hugh 
Managhan.  11.  William  W.,  mentioned  below. 
12.  Sarah,  married  Barnabas  Clark,  who  was 
a  fish  dealer  in  New  York  City.  13.  Rebecca, 
wife  of  Isaac  Emmons,  a  sailor,  was  the 
mother  of  Edward  Emmons,  of  Long  Branch. 

(  V )  Richard  (2),  fourth  son  of  Richard 
(  1  )  and  Elizabeth  (Gardner)  Crum,  was  born 
March  31,  1803,  at  Long  Branch,  New  Jer- 
sey, died  September  19,  1847.  He  married,  at 
Long  Branch,  July  26,  1831,  Mary  Brooks, 
born  at   Doylestown,   Bucks  county,   Pennsyl- 


vania, died  .April  23,  1873.  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and   Rebecca  (Harkins)   Brooks. 

(  VI  )  Richard  Benjamin  Brooks,  only  child 
of  Richard  (2)  and  Mary  (Brooks)  Crum, 
was  burn  November  23,  1832,  at  Long  Branch, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  until  he  came 
of  age.  He  then  removed  to  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  was  employed  in  the  lumber  woods 
for  several  years  and  settled  in  Gibson  town- 
ship, Cameron  county,  Pennsylvania.  Through 
successive  changes  in  boundaries,  although 
remaining  on  the  same  farm,  he  has  lived  suc- 
cessivelv  in  Lycoming,  Elk  and  Cameron  coun- 
ties. He  has  been  quite  active  in  public  affairs, 
serving  as  school  director,  three  years  as  con- 
stable, four  years  as  supervisor,  and  also  as 
justice  of  the  peace.  For  several  years  he 
travelled  in  the  interest  of  the  nursery  busi- 
ness. He  married,  August  11,  1853,  Sarah 
Jane  Miller,  born  April  25,  [836,  at  Sinema- 
honing,  Pennsylvania,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Loque)  Miller.  Children:  1.  Mary 
Elizabeth,  widow  of  George  II.  Boardman.  2. 
Martin  Luther,  a  real  estate  broker  in  Chicago, 
Illinois.  3.  Charles  Washington,  a  railroad 
engineer.  4.  Victor  Emanuel,  resides  in  Si- 
nemahoning,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  is  as- 
sistant superintendent  of  the  Keystone  Tire 
Company.  5.  Richard  McClelland,  an  exten- 
sive farmer,  and  state  forestry  warden  of 
Pennsylvania.  6.  Martha  Rebecca  Victoria 
Lucinda,  wife  of  James  W.  Montgomery,  a 
Pennsylvania  railroad  engineer.  7.  Nancy 
Jane,  married  Abel  Dent,  a  merchant  and  hotel 
proprietor.  8.  John  Calvin  9.  Roscoe  Al- 
bert, a  railroad  conductor.  10.  Melancthon 
Vespasius,  engaged  in  business  at  Sinemahon- 
ing.  11.  James  Harrison,  was  accidentally 
killed  at  Butte  City,  Montana,  August  1,  1002. 

(V)  Rev.  William  W.  Crum,  fifth  son  of 
Richard  (1)  and  Elizabeth  (Gardner)  Crum, 
was  born  January  24,  1807,  at  Long  Branch, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  grew  up  and  learned 
the  blacksmith's  trade.  Having  adopted  the 
religion  taught  by  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  he  became  a  clergyman,  and  thus  con- 
tinued until  the  end  of  his  life.  He  was  a 
pioneer  minister  in  Western  New  York,  es- 
tablishing many  churches,  and  was  later  con- 
nected with  the  Michigan  Conference.  Dur- 
ing the  civil  war  he  served  on  the  Christian 
Commission,  bringing  comfort  to  many  soldiers 
of  the  Union  army.  He  died  September  16, 
1866.     He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Henry 


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Latham,  who  was  an  earnest  religious  worker 
in  co-operation  with  her  husband,  and  held  in 
high  esteem  on  account  of  her  excellent 
Christian  character  and  earnest  labors  in  every 
enterprise  of  the  church.  She  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1808,  in  New  York  City,  died  Oc- 
tober 16,  1891.  Her  father  was  commander 
of  the  brig  "Delia,"  and  was  lost  at  sea.  Chil- 
dren: 1.  John,  born  November  26,  1828;  was 
a  soldier  in  the  First  Michigan  Cavalry  during 
the  civil  war,  and  served  five  years,  dying  as 
a  result  of  that  service ;  he  married,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1855,  Harriet  Johnson.  2.  Richard 
Donly,  mentioned  below.  3.  William  Henry, 
born  November  23,  1832 ;  has  a  large  stock 
farm  in  Missouri,  and  is  an  honored  citizen ; 
married,  December  18,  1857,  Ann  Totten. 
4.  Delia,  born  October  1,  1834;  married,  Sep- 
tember 11,  1851,  William  Hibbard,  and  was 
the  mother  of  four  children.  Mr.  Hibbard 
was  a  Union  soldier,  and  died  from  wounds 
received  in  battle.  5.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born 
December  11,  1837;  married,  December  30, 
1855,  George  Sherman,  and  died  without  is- 
sue. 6.  Ruth,  born  January  23,  1843;  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
and  a  devoted  Christian  woman ;  married,  July 
31,  1858,  Jerome  Biteley,  who  was  an  officer  in 
the  First  Michigan  Cavalry,  and  served  with 
distinction  through  the  civil  war;  he  established 
the  town  of  Biteley  in  Michigan,  where  he 
operated  large  lumber  mills.  7.  Hannah  B., 
born  January  17,  1845;  married,  January  22, 
1863,  Rev.  M.  H.  McMahon,  and  now  resides 
in  Portland,  Oregon,  where  in  19 13  was  cele- 
brated the  golden  anniversary  of  their  mar- 
riage. Mr.  McMahon  is  a  veteran  of  the  civil 
war,  having  served  in  Company  G,  Fifth  New 
York  Duryea  Zouaves,  one  of  the  famous 
fighting  regiments ;  he  was  severely  wounded 
at  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run ;  was  dis- 
charged from  the  army  at  the  age  of  twenty, 
and  entered  the  ministry  in  1878.  Their  daugh- 
ter, an  accomplished  artist,  is  the  wife  of  Hon. 
Elisha  A.  Baker,  formerly  prominent  in  In- 
diana, and  now  residing  in  Portland,  Oregon. 
8.  George  Latham,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Richard  Donly,  second  son  of  Rev. 
William  W.  and  Sarah  (Latham)  Crum,  was 
born  February  11,  1831,  in  New  York  City, 
and  was  a  small  child  when  his  parents  settled 
in  Schuyler  county,  New  York.  It  was  diffi- 
cult for  a  struggling  clergyman  in  a  pioneer 
region  to   sustain   his   increasing   family,   and 


Richard  D.  was  bound  out  to  a  Methodist 
brother  by  the  name  of  Archibald  Tilford. 
Here  he  was  reared  in  the  fear  of  God,  with 
plenty  of  work  and  little  schooling  thrown  in, 
the  latter  consisting  mainly  of  the  double  rule 
of  three  and  the  multiplication  table.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  years  he  determined  to  learn  a 
trade,  and  going  to  Watkins,  the  county  seat, 
he  served  an  apprenticeship  for  several  years 
as  wheelwright.  In  time  he  constructed  a 
buggy,  which  he  thought  good  enough  for  a 
bride,  and  with  it  drove  back  over  the  hills  to 
a  cross  road  named  Oak  Hill,  where  lived 
Mariah  R.  Du  Vail,  who  was  a  descendant  of 
the  Mohawk  Valley  Dutch.  On  December  22, 
1852,  they  were  married,  and  have  dwelt  in 
peace  and  harmony  over  sixty  years.  In  1853, 
on  account  of  precarious  health,  Mr.  Crum 
abandoned  his  trade,  and  engaged  in  photo- 
graphing. This  business  he  followed  for  more 
than  fifty  years,  when  he  retired.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  photographers  of  views  in 
and  about  Watkins  Glen,  in  the  days  when 
the  developing  outfit  must  be  carried  to  the 
scene  of  operations.  He  very  greatly  aided 
in  making  that  section  the  popular  resort  which 
it  is  today.  In  the  spring  of  1898  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Long  Branch,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  now  resides.  Children:  1.  Adelaide, 
born  January  31,  1854;  a  talented  musician 
and  gifted  artist  in  oils ;  she  married,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1892,  Levi  H.  Bower,  formerly  of 
Watkins,  now  of  Long  Branch ;  they  have  one 
son,  Richard  Crum  Bower.  2.  Fred,  born 
July  21,  1858,  in  Watkins;  is  a  photographer 
in  Syracuse,  New  York;  he  married,  in  1879, 
Sadie  Bedient.  3.  Ellen  Gertrude,  born  March 
16.  1865  ;  graduated,  1886,  from  the  Woman's 
College  of  New  York  City ;  died  August  3, 
1898,  at  Long  Branch.  4.  Delia,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1873;  now  the  wife  of  John  Henry- 
Brown,  a  merchant  of  Long  Branch  ;  children  : 
Joseph,  Duvale,  Helen  Gertrude. 

(VI)  George  Latham,  youngest  child  of 
Rev.  William  W.  and  Sarah  (Latham)  Crum, 
was  born  February  28,  1847,  in  Beaver  Dam, 
Schuyler  county,  New  York. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  at  Watkins, 
Schuyler  county,  New  York,  up  to  the  age 
of  twelve  years,  at  which  time  his  school  days 
ended  and  he  became  a  workman  in  the  Fall 
Brook  Company  shipyard  at  Watkins,  engaged 
in  making  coal  barges  for  carrying  coal  down 
Seneca  lake  and  Erie  canal.    He  was  employed 


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at  this  until  he  was  fifteen  years  and  six  months 
of  age,  when  at  the  breaking  ont  of  the  civil 
war  he  enlisted  in  Company  B,  <  >ne  Hundred 
and  Sixty-first  New  York  infantry  Regiment, 
and  served  for  three  years  ami  two  months. 
His  regiment  was  in  the  First  Division,  Third 
Brigade,  Nineteenth  Army  Corps,  under  Gen- 
era] Banks,  commander  of  the  Department  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley,  and  served  through  all 
the  operations  below  Vicksburg,  including  the 
siege  of  Port  Hudson,  which  continued  forty- 
five  days.  (  )n  July  13,  1863,  he  participated 
in  the  battle  id"  Donaldsonville,  Louisiana,  in 
which  he  lost  a  brother-in-law,  William  Hib- 
bard,  husband  of  his  sister  Delia.  After  that 
battle  he  returned  to  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1864,  when  the  Red  River 
campaign  was  organized  and  troops  assembled 
at  Algiers,  he  was  among  the  sharpshooters 
assigned  to  gunboats,  attached  to  the  gunboat 
"Arizona,"  and  took  part  in  the  engagement 
of  Sabine  Pass,  where  the  gunboats,  "Sachem" 
and  "Clifton"  were  destroyed.  As  soon  as  the 
tide  permitted,  the  gunboats  withdrew,  and  the 
"Arizona"  returned  to  Algiers,  whence  all  the 
forces  organized  for  the  Red  River  campaign, 
marched  about  four  hundred  miles  up  and 
back.  They  came  back  to  Morganza  Bend,  and 
at  this  point  word  was  brought  that  the  enemy 
was  driving  cattle  across  the  river  by  the 
thousands  for  supplies  for  their  army,  and  a 
detachment  was  sent  out  against  them  by  Gen 
eral  <  hippy  of  the  Twenty-third  Wisconsin 
Regiment,  its  brigade  commander.  When 
some  fourteen  miles  from  headquarters.  Gen- 
eral <  iuppy  found  it  necessary  to  make  another 
dav's  march  into  the  interior  to  reconnoiter. 
Finding  it  necessary  to  send  a  messenger  back 
to  headquarters  through  an  enemy-infi  ted 
country,  with  orders  for  the  wagon-train  to 
come  up  with  supplies,  and  after  others  re- 
fused to  undertake  the  errand  without  an  es- 
cort, which  was  practically  impossible,  young 
Crum  was  recommended  by  Colonel  Kinsey 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-first  New  York- 
State  Volunteers.  Readily  accepting  the  com- 
mission, lie  made  the  dangerous  trip,  without 
mishap.  This  feat  of  courage  was  widely 
spoken  of  and  commended  in  army  circles. 
After  leaving  Morganza  Bend,  his  regiment, 
the  <  >ne  Hundred  and  Sixty-first  New  York 
State  Volunteers,  was  ordered  to  Vicksburg, 
and  being  largely  made  up  of  mechanics,  was 
set  to  work  repairing  the  rolling  stock  on  the 


Jackson  &  Eastern  Mississippi  railroad.  Her 
Mr.  Crum  was  detailed  on  the  staff  of  Majo 
Alexander  Shaler,  who  was  put  in  charge  c 
the  Department  of  Arkansas,  with  headquai 
ters  at  Duvall's  Bluff.  In  the  spring  of  186; 
the  Mobile  campaign  being  organized,  he  wa 
directed  to  return  to  Carlton  to  his  own  reg: 
ment,  and  there  was  placed  on  the  staff  0 
Major-general  Steele,  in  which  capacity  he  n 
mained  until  after  the  fall  of  Fort  Blakley.  Th 
army  was  then  ordered  to  Spanish  Fort,  thenc 
to  Mobile,  Alabama.  While  on  the  marc 
news  of  General  Lee's  surrender  readied  th 
troops.  Finding  that  the  fort  had  been  evj 
cuated,  the  troops  moved  against  the  city  c 
Mobile,  and  after  its  evacuation  marched  int 
the  city  at  night  and  went  into  camp  in  th 
suburbs.  After  several  weeks  his  regimet 
was  sent  to  Apalachicola,  Florida,  with  othe 
troops,  to  take  care  of  the  cotton  which  ha 
accumulated  there  during  the  war,  in  hope 
that  the  blockade  runners  might  get  in  to  carr 
it  away,  but  which  had  not  been  done.  Th 
cotton  was  seized  in  the  name  of  the  goverr 
ment.  Colonel  B.  Kinsey  being  detailed  1 
judge  advocate,  under  Major-general  Ashbotl 
Mr.  Crum  assisted  in  trying  cases  again: 
delinquent  soldiers  and  officers.  Here  he  spet 
two  months,  when  he  came  home  and  wj 
mustered  out  of  service,  October  25,  1865.  H 
participated  in  thirty-three  engagements  dui 
ing  the  war;  was  on  the  staffs  of  Major-gei 
eral  Shaler,  Major-general  Steele,  Brigadie: 
general  Guppy  and  Colonel  Kinsey;  was  coi 
tinuouslv  under  fire  for  forty-five  days  at  tr 
siege  of  Port  Hudson.  He  fervently  believ< 
that  his  life  was  spared  in  answer  to  the  fe: 
vent  prayers  of  his  righteous  parents. 

After  the  war.  he  entered  the  New  Yoi 
Fire  Department,  and  became  a  member  c 
Engine  Company  No.  35,  with  which  he  n 
mained  nearly  three  years,  when  he  becan 
assistant  foreman  of  Engine  Company  No.  \ 
and  four  months  later  was  made  foreman  i 
command  of  Engine  Company  No.  4,  at  } 
Liberty  Street,  New  York  City,  with  whic 
he  served  fourteen  years  and  seven  month 
He  then  became  connected  with  the  Mutu; 
Life  Insurance  Company  as  assistant  supe 
intendent  of  the  real  estate  department  of  Ne 
York  City,  holding  this  position  for  two  year 
when  he  was  sent  to  Boston  to  take  charge  c 
the  real  estate  department  of  the  same  compar 
in  that  city.     He  remained  there  three  year 


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/hen  failing  health  caused  him  to  retire  from 
ctive  business  for  some  time.  When  he  re- 
igned his  position  with  the  Mutual  Life,  the 
ompany  accepted  his  resignation  and  pre- 
ented  to  him  a  check  amounting  to  three 
housand  dollars  in  evidence  of  appreciation 
if  his  long  services.  After  regaining  his  health 
ie  became  connected  with  the  Equitable  Life 
Assurance  Society  as  a  solicitor,  and  for  the 
last  twenty-four  years  has  been  acting  in  the 
apacity  of  agency  manager.  During  this  time 
ie  has  probably  written  some  twelve  million 
iollars  worth  of  policies.  His  offices  are  in 
he  Singer  Building,  Broadway,  New  York, 
ind  he  is  a  well-known  figure  in  the  insurance 
ine,  and  most  highly  esteemed  by  every  ex- 
:cutive  officer  of  the  company.  This  is  evi- 
lenced  by  the  following  letter : 

[•HE     EOUITABLE     LIFE     ASSURANCE     SO- 
CIETY   OF    THE    UNITED    STATES. 

June  17,  1913. 
My  Dear  Financier : 

I  have  followed  your  career  with  interest  and 
>ride  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  or  more.  At  one 
ime  I  see  you  breaking  into  politics  and  making  an 
jfipress  on  affairs  of  State — at  another  time,  as  the 
)resent.  I  see  you  breaking  into  the  financial  affairs 
>f  the  world,  vide  your  interest  in  the  Long  Branch 
3anking  Company,  "the  pioneer  concern  along  the 
fersey  coast."  and  all  the  while  I  know  your  heart 
s  true  to  your  first  love,  the  Equitable,  and  I  see 
/ou  continuous  in  your  endeavors  to  give  your  fellow 
nen  "protection  that  protects"  by  insuring  them  in 
;he  greatest  company  in  the  world. 

So  here's  to  you!  and  long  life,  happiness  and 
;ontent  to  you ! 

Sincerelv  yours, 
(Signed)     Geo.  T.  Wilson-. 
i    L.   Crum,  Esq.         Second  Vice-President. 

Mr.  Crum  is  a  man  of  strong  force  of  char- 
acter ;  is  a  director  in  several  large  corpora- 
:ions  and  banks.  He  is  a  member  of  A.  E. 
Kimball  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
jf  New  York,  and  of  the  Board  of  Trade  at 
Long  Branch,  which  is  his  home,  and  where 
ie  was  candidate  for  mayor  in  1910.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  a  mem- 
Der  of  Harlem  Lodge,  No.  201,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  since  1868,  and  is  also 
a  member  of  what  is  known  as  the  Half  Mil- 
lion Club  in  insurance  circles.  He  and  his 
family  attend  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

He  married  (first)  in  1866,  Mary  Lanzer, 
daughter  of  Frederick  and  Elizabeth  (Mar- 
jory) Lanzer;  she  was  born  in  New  York  City. 
Of  this  marriage  two  children  were  born:  1. 
William  K.,  born  in  New  York  City,  August 


11,  1868;  married  Mamie  Pasterelle,  and  they 
have  four  children:  John,  William,  Patrice, 
George  L. ;  his  residence  is  at  College  Point, 
Long  Island ;  he  is  a  machinist,  and  employed 
by  the  Auto-Press  Company  there.  2.  Ella 
Frances,  married  William  G.  Colling,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York;  they  have  a  daughter, 
Marion.  Mr.  Crum  married  (second)  Fannie 
L.  Rabb,  of  New  York  City,  a  native  of  Aus- 
tria, who  came  to  this  country  when  a  child. 
She  is  the  mother  of  three  children  :  3.  Maurice 
R.,  born  in  Boston,  April  16,  1888,  died  at  the 
age  of  two  years.  4.  Mercedee  Latham,  born 
November  11,  1S90.  in  New  York  City;  she 
was  educated  in  the  Long  Branch  high  school, 
and  was  selected  by  the  Long  Branch  Board 
of  Trade  as  Queen  of  the  Carnival  of  1912, 
she  is  an  ardent  student  of  music.  5.  Ortrude 
Latham,  born  in  New  York  City,  October  7, 
1893;  she  is  a  graduate  of  the  Long  Branch 
high  school,  andis  an  ardent  student  of  music, 
and  an  elocutionist  and  vocalist  of  high  order. 

Willem  Florisse  Crum,  son  of 
CRUM     Floris     Willemsen     (q.     v.)     and 

Catalyntie  (Ariaens)  Krom,  was 
probably  baptized  somewhere  on  Long  Island, 
born  about  1677-78.  He  was  a  small  child 
when  his  father  removed  to  Tappan,  and  there 
resided.  He  married,  at  Hackensack,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1699,  Geritje  Van  Houte,  and  the 
marriage  record  at  Tappan  describes  him  as 
a  native  of  Flatbush,  and  his  wife  as  a  native 
of  Harsamus.  They  had  children  baptized  at 
Tappan:  Floris  Willemse,  mentioned  below, 
Theunis,  April  14,  1703;  Willem,  July  4.  1705- 
Willem  F.  Crum  died  before  October  15,  1707, 
on  which  date  his  widow  married  Jan  Hogen- 
canb. 

(III)  Floris  Willemse,  eldest  child  of  Wil- 
lem Florisse  and  Geritje  (Van  Houte)  Crum, 
was  born  October  16,  1701,  at  Tappan,  New 
York,  and  resided  in  that  vicinity.  He  mar- 
ried Cytie  (Seitje)  Brouwer,  and  they  had 
children  baptized  at  Tappan:  Johannes,  men- 
tioned below;  Samuel,  born  May  14,  1731 ; 
Geritje,  July  24,  1733:  Willem,  March  9, 
1739;  Margrietje.  March  17,  1741;  Theunis, 
November  27,  1743- 

(IV)  Tohannes,  eldest  child  of  Floris  Wil- 
lemse and  Cytie  (Brouwer)  Crum.  was  born 
July  31.  1728.  baptized  August  23,  same  year, 
at  Tappan,  New  York,  and  resided  in  Upper 
Nyack.      He    married,    at    Clarkstown,    Lena 


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Benson,  daughter  of  Johannes  and  Lena  Ben- 
son, and  was  described  at  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage as  a  resident  of  Clarkstown.  Only  one 
of  his  children  is  recorded  there  and  he  evi- 
dently moved  up  the  river  in   1751-52. 

(V)  Johannes  (John)  Benson,  son  of  Jo- 
hannes and  Lena  (Benson)  Crum,  was  bap- 
tized March  1,  1751,  in  Clarkstown,  New 
York,  and  resided  at  Spring  Valley,  in  the 
town  of  Ramapo.  lie  was  probably  twice 
married.  The  family  records  show  that  he 
married  Katee  Sarvent,  December  31,  1782. 
All  of  his  children  were  born  previous  to  that 
date.  No  record  of  the  former  marriage  has 
been  discovered.  The  Sarvent  family  is  of 
French  origin  and  the  name  appears  on  the 
Dutch  records  of  Tappan  in  various  forms,  the 
most  usual  being  Server.  It  is  also  found  as 
Sarven.  Philip  Sarvent,  born  about  1720-21, 
is  described  as  coming  from  Holland  at  the  age 
of  thirteen  years,  lie  worked  thirteen  years 
for  Cornelius  Cooper  in  Clarkstown,  whose 
farm  of  fifty-five  acres  he  purchased  in  1747 
This  is  in  Upper  Nyack,  and  the  stone  house 
on  the  farm  contains  a  chimney  made  of  bricks 
brought  from  Holland.  He  died  August  15, 
17X11.  His  wife  was  Maria  (  Onderdonck) 
Crum,  and  they  had  children:  Philip,  Adrian, 
Garret,  Abraham,  born  May  22,  1752,  and 
probably  Katee,  wife  of  Johannes  B.  Crum 
The  birth  of  the  oldest  son  is  recorded  at 
Clarkstown,  August  5,  1748.  Katee  was  prob- 
ably born  about  1752-53.  Jacob  Sarvent  and 
Catrina  De  Beer  had  a  son  Abraham,  born 
November  25.  1760,  baptized  December  7,  at 
Clarkstown.  Katee  may  have  been  their 
daughter.  Children  of  Johannes  B.  Crum: 
Elizabeth,  born  February  22,  1767:  James, 
December  2^,  1768:  Thomas,  January  27, 
1771  ;  Katie,  March  20,  1773;  Jacob.  January 
18,  i/~f>;  Henry,  January  17,  1778:  John,  Jan- 
uary T2,  1781  ;  Abram,  mentioned  below. 
These  records  are  supplied  by  the  family  and 
cannot  be  found  in  any  of  the  Rockland  county 
or  New  Jersey  churches.  The  family  may 
have  crossed   the  river  for  church   privileges. 

(VI)  Abram.  son  of  Johannes  (John)  Ben- 
son and  Katee  (  Sarvent)  Crum.  was  born 
September  29,  tt8^,  in  Nyack.  New  York, 
died  March  24,  1858.  He  probably  resided  in 
the  town  of  Ramapo,  as  his  marriage  was  per- 
formed by  Rev.  Georce  Rrinkerhoff.  pastoi 
of  the  Kakiat  Dutch  Church  of  that  town. 
He  was  born   just  at  the  close  of  the  revolu- 


tionary war,  was  imbued  with  the  patriot] 
spirit  of  his  ancestors,  and  served  as  a  soldie 
from  Rockland  county  in  the  war  of  1812.  H 
married,  September  11,  1808,  Peggv  (Mai 
garet )  Sarven.  They  had  children:  1.  Man 
born  August  30,  1810,  married  Levi  Spring 
steen,  November  3,  1829:  their  children  were 
Theodore  and  Levi  Jr.  2.  John  Abram,  met 
tioned  below.  3.  Abram  Sarven,  born  Decetr 
ber  12,  1814;  married,  January  2,  184c 
Uphemia  Sickles;  they  had  one  child.  Marth 
Blanch,  born  December  28,  1840:  married  Di 
Alonzo  C.  Rembaugh  in  1874,  and  has  on 
child,  Bertha,  born  in  1870,  unmarried.  . 
rheodore,  born  <  >ctober  26,  182''),  died  in  h 
fancy.  5.  Cyrus  Mason,  born  September  2c 
183 1  ;  married  (first)  Laura  Ann  Dickej 
September  2<i,  1857;  married  (second)  Edit 
Mathilda  Hope;  his  children  by  first  marriag 
were:  Margaret  and  Florence.  Children  0 
second  marriage:  Margaret,  Elizabeth,  Heler 
Louise,  Harold. 

(YIIi  John  Abram,  eldest  son  of  Abrar 
and  Peggy  (Margaret)  (Sarven)  Crum,  wa 
born  June  16,  1812,  and  baptized  July  10,  fol 
lowing,  at  the  Kakiat  Church.  He  reside' 
for  many  years  in  New  York  City,  where  h 
was  a  dry  goods  merchant,  and  retired  upoi 
a  competence.  Religiously  he  was  a  Presby 
terian,  and  in  politics  acted  with  the  Republi 
can  party.  He  married,  October  2^,  1870,  a 
the  Brick  Church,  New  York  City.  Janet  Mac 
donald  Rait,  born  March  22,  1836.  died  Apri 
23.  l%77-  daughter  of  James  and  Margare 
(  Dean  )  Rait.  They  had  two  children  :  Emma 
born  March  2~,  1874;  John  Egbert,  mentionei 
below. 

(VIII)  John  Egbert,  only  son  of  Join 
Abram  and  Janet  Macdonald  (Rait)  Crura 
was  born  in  Nyack,  Rockland  county,  Nev 
York,  March  26,  1876  When  quite  younj 
he  received  private  tuition  in  Nyack  and  wa 
prepared  to  enter  the  public  school.  He  finall; 
attended  the  high  school  and  in  1889  he  grad 
uated  with  his  class  with  honors.  He  wa: 
then  thirteen  years  old.  Immediately  upoi 
his  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  th< 
Rochester  Lamp  Company  in  New  York  Citi 
as  a  clerk  and  salesman,  and  remained  wit! 
them  for  about  six  years,  when  he  resignec 
and  accepted  a  position  in  the  Shoe  &  Leathei 
National  Bank  in  New  York  City.  Upon  th< 
consolidation  of  the  bank  with  the  Metropolf 
tan  Bank  in  190^),  he  became  its  jreneral  audi 


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tor  and  is  still  connected  with  it,  and  is  highly 
respected.  John  Egbert  Crum  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  but  has  never  held  any  public  of- 
fice. He  is  a  notary  public  and  a  commissioner 
of  deeds  of  New  York  county.  He  is  a  mem- 
iber  of  Doric  Lodge,  No.  280,  Free  and  Ac- 
:epted  Masons,  New  York  City ;  Phoenix 
Chapter,  No.  2,  New  York  City ;  Sons  of  the 
Revolution;  and  is  also  an  honorary  member 
of  the  Orangetown  Fire  Company,  No.  1, 
Nyack,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Nyack.  He 
married,  June  12,  1906,  in  Tacoma,  Wash- 
ington, Marie  Agnes,  born  November  27, 
1874,  in  Coldwater,  Mercer  county,  Ohio, 
daughter  of  George  Rosenbeck.  George  Ro- 
senbeck  was  born  August  19,  1836,  in  Ham 
burg,  Germany.  He  emigrated  when  young 
to  America  and  finally  became  a  prominent 
dry  goods  merchant  in  Coldwater,  and  also 
Dwned  a  large  farm  in  the  same  place.  He 
has  now  disposed  of  all  his  interest  in  Cold- 
water  and  leads  a  retired  life  in  Los  Angeles, 
California.  He  married  Marie  Elizabeth,  burn 
in  Bantzen,  Germany,  daughter  of  Frederick 
Kalkhoff .  Their  children  were :  Catherine, 
Dorn  in  1872;  Marie  Agnes,  mentioned  above; 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1876;  Josephine,  born  in 
1878. 


Gysbert   Crum   appeared   in    New 
CRUM     York    City    when    it    was    under 

English  rule.  The  first  mention 
jf  him  is  found  in  the  land  records  at  Albany, 
showing  that  he  received  a  deed  of  confirma- 
ion  of  thirty  acres  at  Marbletown,  Esopus, 
October  11,  1 67 1.  He  appears  to  have  been 
iving  in  New  York  in  1677,  when  he  had  a 
:hild  baptized  there.  Possibly  he  may  have 
Deen  living  at  Marbletown  at  this  time  and 
Drought  the  child  to  New  York  for  baptism. 
The  survey  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight 
icres  on  the  south  side  of  Esopus  Creek,  in 
Marbletown,  for  him,  was  recorded  April  13. 
1686.  No  record  of  his  marriage  is  found  in 
New  York  or  Kingston  but  his  wife  was 
Ciertie  (Van  Vliet)  Crum.  Their  oldest  child, 
Mayken,  was  baptized  in  New^  York,  October 
|j,  1677.  Others,  recorded  in  Kingston,  are: 
Cysbert,  *orn  February  9,  1679 ;  Henric.  De 
:ember  9,  1683;  Archie,  January  31.  1686; 
Zacharias  and  Elizabeth  (twins)  March  ?, 
588. 
(II)    Dirck,    or   Richard,    undoubtedlv    the 


son  of  Gysbert  and  Giertie  (Van  Vliet )  Crum, 
born  about  1681,  resided  in  the  vicinity  of 
Marbletown  or  Rochester,  near  Kingston. 
New  York,  where  the  baptisms  of  his  chil- 
dren are  recorded.  No  record  of  his  own  birth 
or  baptism  appears,  or  of  his  marriage.  He 
married  Eva  de  la  Montanjen,  baptized  March 
23,  1683,  in  New  York,  daughter  of  William 
and  Leonora  (de  Hooges )  de  la  Montanjen. 
Children:  Willem,  baptized  September  1,  1709; 
Gysbert,  mentioned  below ;  Geertjen,  March 
1,  1713;  Johannes,  March  13,  1 7 1 5  ;  Elehonora, 
June  3,  1716;  Henderick,  January  12,  1718; 
Abraham,  February  5,  1721  ;  Elizabeth,  March 
10,  1723;  Lydia,  January  1,  1727. 

(III)  Gysbert  (2),  second  son  of  Dirck 
or  Richard  and  Eva  (de  la  Montanjen)  Crum, 
was  baptized  at  Kingston,  New  York,  No- 
vember 12,  1710,  and  appears  to  have  been 
baptized  a  second  time  at  Rochester,  October 
18,  1724.  He  married,  at  Kingston,  October 
21,  1737,  Zara  Bogaard,  both  being  residents 
of  Marbletown,  where  she  was  born.  They 
had  children  baptized  at  Kingston:  Marthen, 
February  26,  1738;  Dyne,  April  6,  1740; 
Henry,  mentioned  below ;  Anneke,  December 
17,  1749;  Marte,  February  11,  1759. 

(IV)  Henry,  eldest  son  of  Gysbert  (2)  and 
Zara  (Bogaard)  Crum,  was  born  at  Marble- 
town, New  York,  baptized  September  4,  1743. 
at  Kingston,  and  made  his  home  in  Marble- 
town. He  married,  at  Kingston  church,  May 
4,  1777.  Janneke  Phoenix,  a  native  and  resi- 
dent of  Hurley,  baptized  September  3,  1758, 
at  Kingston,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Mary 
Phoenix.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution, 
was  shot  in  the  legs  and  always  a  cripple  there- 
after. He  resided  in  the  vicinity  of  Kingston 
until  1785,  or  later,  and  had  children  baptized 
at  Kingston:  Mathias,  October  3,  1779;  Re- 
becca, September  29,  1782;  Willem,  May  1, 
1785.  Tradition  says  he  resided  in  Kingston 
or  Saugerties.  He  brought  no  more  children 
to  Kingston  for  baptism. 

(V)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Henry  (1)  and 
Janneke  (Phoenix)  Crum,  was  born  in  the 
vicinity  of  Kingston,  New  York,  and  died 
August  20.  1834,  in  Bergen  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  was  a  farmer  For  a  time  he 
lived  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  Democrat 
politically,  and  affiliated  with  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church.  He  married,  March  5,  1814. 
Maria  Becker,  who  married  (second),  in  1839, 
William    Wyley.      She    died    May    20.    1881. 


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Children:  Henry,  mentioned  below;  Mary 
Ann,  married  George  Bloomer;  Peter  James, 
horn  May  17,  1822;  John  William,  February 
22,  1828;  Theophilus  Hanford,  August  12, 
1830;  Andrew  Jackson,  June  26,  1834. 

(VI)  Henry  (3),  eldest  child  of  Henry  (2) 
and  Maria  (Becker)  Crum,  was  born  July 
2~,  1815,  in  New  York  City,  died  there  July 
19,  [849.  He  married,  November  3,  1846,  in 
New  York  City,  Henrietta  Frances  Cams 
burn  April  23,  1827,  died  February  11,  1906, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Fliza  (Herring) 
(  iarns.  The  last  named  was  a  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Herring,  who  was  an  officer  under 
Washington  and  one  of  the  Cincinnati  Society. 
His  wife,  Catherine  (Myers)  Herring,  was  a 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Myers,  who  was  put 
aboard  the  prison  ship  "Jersey,"  and  nevet 
heard  of  after.  Children:  Frederick  Henry. 
mentioned  below;  Emma  Frances,  born  May 
4.    '84'),   unmarried. 

(  VII  )  Frederick  I  lenry,  only  son  of  Henry 
(3)  and  Henrietta  F.  (Cams)  Crum,  was 
bom  September  27.  1847,  at  No.  83  Charlton 
Street,  Now  York  City.  In  1862  he  graduated 
at  the  Dutch  Collegiate  Institute  of  New  York. 
In  his  sixteenth  year,  on  March  0,  1863,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  North  River  Fire 
Insurance  Company  as  a  clerk  and  has  risen 
through  various  positions  in  that  establish- 
ment, being  now  its  vice-president  and  secre- 
tary. He  is  also  president  of  Crum  &  Forster 
fire  underwriters;  vice-president  of  the  Hut 
chins  Security  Company ;  director  of  the  Nas- 
sau Fire  Insurance  Company;  the  United 
States  Fire  Insurance  Company;  the  Williams- 
burg City  Fire  Insurance  Company;  and  of 
the  People's  National  Bank  of  Hackensack. 
New  Tersev.  Mr.  Crum  is  a  life  member  of 
the  New  York  Historical  Society,  a  member 
of  the  Economic  Club  of  New  York,  and  of 
the  Episcopal  church  at  Oradell,  New  Jersey 
He  is  active  in  the  local  councils  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  and  is  an  esteemed  and  useful 
citizen  of  his  home  town 

He  married  (first)  February  1=;,  1871,  Mary 
Laura  Petrowitch,  born  in  1844,  in  New  York 
City,  died  April  6.  1883,  daughter  of  Chris- 
tian Petrowitch.  He  married  (second)  Feb- 
ruary 11.  1003,  Louise  Maltbie  Wortendyke, 
born  June  0.  1869.  Children  of  first  wife: 
1.  Frederick  Henry,  born  November  3,  1871, 
died  December  15,  1R82.  2.  Mary  Laura, 
born   June   3,    1873.      3.    Helen   Louise,   born 


January  15,  1878;  married,  June,  1903,  S.  A 
Van  Der  Water,  M.D.,  of  Oradell,  and  ha 
a  daughter  Helen,  born  September  2J,  1904 
4.  Hubert,  born  August  20,  1882;  marriec 
February  28,  1906,  Lucy  Sparks,  and  the 
have  one  child,  Edith  Lueile,  born  Januar 
22,  1907.  Child  of  second  wife:  5.  Frederic 
Davenport,  born  August  20,  1904. 


Rev.  William  Leverich,  th 
LEYFRICH  founder  of  this  family,  firs 
appears  as  a  student  a 
Emanuel  College,  Cambridge,  England,  wher 
he  graduated  in  1625.  He  died  in  Newtowr 
Long  Island,  before  June  10.  1677,  when  letter 
of  administration  on  bis  estate  were  grante 
to  his  son  Eleazer.  He  came  over  to  Americ 
in  the  ship  "James,"  as  minister  to  the  churc 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  arriving  at  Salen 
Massachusetts,  October  10,  1633.  Two  year 
later  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  about  163; 
he  became  assistant  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Partridgf 
at  Duxbury,  Massachusetts.  Three  year 
later,  he  accepted  the  charge  of  the  church  a 
Sandwich,  on  Cape  Cod,  and  in  1653  he  be 
came  a  purchaser  and  settler  of  Oyster  Ba} 
Long  Island,  the  inhabitants  agreeing  to  giv 
him  .£  15  a  year  as  their  minister  among  then 
Here  and  at  Huntington  and  Newtown,  Lon 
Island,  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  lif< 
His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children,  s 
far  as  known :  Caleb,  referred  to  below 
Eleazer.  married  Rebecca  Wright. 

(IT)  Caleb,  son  of  Rev.  William  Levericl 
came  with  his  father  to  Newtown,  Lon 
Island,  where  he  acquired  much  land  and  wa 
one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Presby 
terian  church.     He  died  in  1717.  aged  sevent) 

nine   years.      He   married    Martha  ,   wh 

survived  him.  Children:  John,  referred  t 
below;  Alary,  married  Job  Wright;  Eleanoi 
married  Joseph  Reeder. 

(III)  John,  son  of  Caleb  and  Marth 
Wright,  was  born  in  Newtown,  Long  Islanc 
died  there  about   1705.     He  married   Hanna 

.     Children:  John,  born  about  1606,  die 

in  1780,  married  (first)  December  14.  172c 
Amy  Moore,  (second)  Susanna,  widow  0 
John  Sackett,  and  (third)  Sarah  (Titus 
Cornish  :  William,  died  March  25,  17.S4,  mat 
ried,  July  23.  1722.  Martha  Way  ;  Reniamir 
referred  to  below;  Hannah,  married  lame 
Wav  ;  Martha,  married  John  Way. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  son  of   Tohn  and  Hanna 


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Leverich,  was  born  in  Newtown,  Long  Island, 
died  there  about  1732.  He  married  Mary 
.     Children:  Caleb,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Caleb  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary 
Leverich,  was  born  at  Newtown,  Long  Island, 
died  July  6,  1758,  at  Sabbath  Day  Point,  on 
Lake  George,  while  accompanying  the  ill-fated 
expedition  of  General  Abercrombie.  He  be- 
gan business  life  early  as  a  painter  in  New 
York  City,  but  was  induced  to  enlist  for  the 
French  and  Indian  wars.  He  married  Sus- 
anna, died  September  11,  1814,  aged  eighty- 
eight  years,  daughter  of  William  Burch.  Chil- 
dren: Benjamin,  referred  to  below;  John,  born 
September  4,  1758,  died  July  28,  1812,  mar- 
ried Ann  Chase. 

(VI)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Caleb  (2)  and 
Susanna  (Burch)  Leverich,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  and  died  in  Cortlandtown,  near 
Peekskill.  Westchester  county,  New  York, 
after  1790,  in  which  year  the  census  of  the 
township,  gives  him  three  white  males  over 
sixteen  years,  including  heads  of  families, 
three  free  white  males  under  sixteen  years, 
and  four  free  white  females  over  sixteen 
years,  including  heads  of  families.  He  is  the 
only  Leverich  in  Westchester  county  at  that 
time  except  his  third  cousin  John,  who  at  that 
time  was  living  at  North  Castle,  but  later  went 
back  to  his  paternal  home  in  Newtown. 

(VII)  John  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  Leve- 
rich, of  Cortlandtown,  Westchester  county. 
New  York,  was  a  farmer  in  that  county.    His 

ife's  name  is  unknown.  Children  :  Benjamin, 
referred  to  below  ;  Caleb  :  a  daughter. 

(VIII)  Benjamin  (3).  son  of  John  (2) 
Leverich,  was  born  in  Cortlandtown,  West- 
chester county.  New  York,  January  22,  1793, 
died  there  April  14,  1878.  He  was  a  carpenter 
by  trade  and  had  a  shop  in  Cortlandtown.  He 
was  somewhat  of  a  lawyer  and  was  looked  up 
to  by  his  neighbors,  who  would  ask  his  advice 
as  to  the  settling  of  their  disputes.  He  was 
a  Whig  in  politics,  and  served  as  justice  of 
the  peace  and  also  as  poormaster  of  the  town. 
He  served  on  Long  Island  in  the  war  of  1S12 
He  married  (first)  August  27,  1814,  Eunice 
Outhout,  who  was  born  May  6,  1791  :  married 
(second)  in  1856,  Hannah  Purdy.  Children, 
all  by  first  marriage:  Hattie  Ann,  married 
George  Cruger  ;  John  W.,  born  in  [819,  died 
about  1880.  married  Elizabeth  Ryder;  Caleb; 
Mary  Jane,  married  Gilbert  Treadwell ;  W'il 
Ham,   referred   to  below ;   Benjamin ;   George. 


(IX)  William,  son  of  Benjamin  (3)  and 
Eunice  (Outhout)  Leverich,  was  born  in 
Cortlandtown,  Westchester  county,  New  York, 
October  26,  1822,  and  is  now  living  in  Kings- 
ton, Ulster  county,  New  York.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  country  schools  of  Cort- 
landtown, and  learned  the  trade  of  mason, 
which  he  followed  in  that  section  of  the 
country  until  1848,  when  he  removed  to  Tomp- 
kins Cove,  Rockland  county.  New  York,  to 
set  up  an  engine  and  boiler  for  the  Tompkins 
Cove  Stove  Company,  and  to  do  other  work 
for  them.  He  remained  here  until  1850,  when 
he  went  to  Rondout,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
where  he  did  all  the  mason  work  for  the 
Newark  Lime  and  Cement  Company,  building 
all  of  their  kilns,  which  are  still  standing.  He 
also  did  numerous  other  masonry  jobs,  among 
them  being  the  school  house  at  Tompkins 
Cove,  the  Children's  Church  and  the  district 
school  at  Rondout,  and  for  fifty-six  years  he 
was  the  boss  mason  of  the  town.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  cast  his  first  vote 
for  Harrison  and  Tyler.  He  married,  in 
Peekskill,  Westchester  county,  New  York,  in 
1842,  Catharine,  daughter  of  [anus  Gale,  of 
Oregon,  Westchester  county,  New  York.  Chil- 
dren :  Minnie  D.,  born  in  1864;  William  H., 
referred  to  below. 

(  X  1  William  II..  son  of  William  and  Cath- 
arine (Gale)  Leverich,  was  born  in  Kingston, 
I'Ktcr  county,  Xew  York,  May  9,  [866,  and 
is  now  living  with  his  father  at  Kingston. 


Captain  John  Seaman,  the 
SEAMAN     founder    of    this    family,    wa^ 

with  six  of  his  sons  one  of  the 
patentees  of  the  town  of  Hempstead,  Long 
Island.  He  was  born  about  1610,  and  died 
after  August  5,  1694,  the  date  of  the  writing 
of  his  will.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Stricland,  and  ( second) 
Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Martha 
(Youngs)  Moore.  Children  by  first  marriage  : 
John,   married    Hannah    Williams :    Jonathan, 

married     Jane    ;     Benjamin,     married 

Martha  Titus;  Solomon,  died  in  1743,  married 
Elizabeth  Linnington ;  Elizabeth,  married 
Colonel  John  Jackson  ;  Samuel,  married  Phebe 
Hicks:  Thomas,  married  Mary  ;  Na- 
thaniel, mentioned  below;  Richard,  horn  in 
[673,  married  Jane  Mott;  Sarah,  married 
John  Mott ;  Martha,  married  Nathaniel  Pear- 
sail  :  Deborah,  married Kirk ;  Hannah, 


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married     -  -     Carman;     Mary,     married 

Pearsall;  daughter,  died  before   [694, 

married   Carman  ;    daughter    died    un- 
married. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Captain  John  and 
Martha  (  Moore)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  and  died  there  (  Ictober  9, 
[759.  lie  married  there,  9th  mo.,  8,  [695, 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(I'earee)  Willis,  who  died  August  20,  175') 
Children:  Rachel,  born  5th  mo.  26,  1696,  died 
unmarried;  Nathaniel,  born  nth  mo.  18,  [699, 
died  June  14.  1774,  married,  in  1722,  Sarah 
Powell;  Hester,  born  <;th  mo.  8,  1701,  mar- 
ried John  Whitson ;  Jacob,  born  8th  mo.  10, 
1703,  died  April  4.  1750,  married,  in  1726,, 
Mercy  Powell;  Abraham,  born  nth  mo.  ro, 
1706,  married  Deborah  Townsend;  Rachel. 
born  1st  mo.  9,  170X,  married,  in  1738,  Jere- 
miah Elfreth;  Hezekiah,  horn  3rd  mo  11. 
1711.  married  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Doughty; 
Thomas,  hum  1  ith  mo.  2.  1713.  married,  in 
1741,  Hannah  Willets ;  Samuel,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(III)  Samuel,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel 
(Willis)  Seaman,  was  horn  in  Hempstead, 
Long  Island.  4th  mo.  13,  1715.  He  married 
Martha,  daughter  of  Obadiah  and  Martha 
(Willets)  Valentine.  Children:  Willet,  mar- 
ried Mary  Searing;  Valentine;  Obadiah,  mar- 
ried Deborah  Valentine;  Rachel,  horn  in  1742, 
died  in  1707,  married.  February  3,  1762,  Silas 
Hicks;  Martha,  married  Henry  Titus;  Phebe 
married  Samuel  Hicks;  Miriam,  married 
Stephen  Robbins ;  Samuel,  mentioned  below; 
Esther,  married  Samuel  Sand-;  Abigail,  mar- 
ried Richard  Willets  ;  Marmaduke. 

(IV)  Samuel  (2),  sen  of  Samuel  (1)  and 
Martha  (Valentine)  Seaman,  was  horn  in 
Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and  died  in  Corn- 
wall. (  (range  county.  New  York.     He  married 

daughter  of  Thomas  and  Martha 
(Powell)  Titus,  who  was  horn  in  17;-.  Chil- 
1  rhomas,  mentioned  below;  Silas,  mar- 

ried Hannah  Green;  Martha,  married  Josiah 
Hazard;  John,  married  Amy  Pearsall:  Wil- 
liam; r?aac;  Rachel,  married  Joseph  Marshall; 
Samuel  married  (first")  Anna  Pearsall,  (sec- 
ond) Phebe  Pearsall.  daughters  of  Wait  and 
Hannah  Pearsall. 

1  V)  Thomas,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and  Kezia 
(Titus)  Seaman,  was  horn  in  1780,  died  in  the 
town  of  Monroe,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
February  23,  1848.    He  married  Sarah  Brown. 


who  was  born  in  1780,  died  in  May,  [86, 
Children:  Jacob,  mentioned  below;  Kezi 
married  Daniel  Cornell ;  Martha ;  Ketural 
married   Peter  S.  Titus. 

(VI)  Jacob,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sara 
(Brown)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Cornwa! 
<  »range  county.  New  York,  in  1803,  died  i 
1888.  He  married,  in  1820,  Hannah  Cock 
who  was  horn  in  1804,  died  in  1889.  Chi 
dren  :  Sarah  Brown,  horn  in  1827;  Thoma; 
died  in  infancy;  Edmund,  horn  in  1832,  die 
in  [888,  married  Alary  Willets;  Thomas,  bor 
August  17,  1835,  died  in  November,  188c 
Jacob  T.,  November  26,  1X38,  died  in  1864 
Elizabeth  K.,  September  24,  1841  ;  Jame: 
referred  to  below;  Hannah  Townsend,  Jam 
ary  20,    1848. 

(VII)  James,  son  of  Jacob  and  Ilanna 
(Cocks)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Cornwal 
Orange  county.  New  York,  June  30,  1844,  an 
is  now  living  at  Woodbury  Falls,  New  Yorl 
He  was  born  on  a  farm  which  was  owned  b 
his  grandfather  and  part  of  which  is  still  i 
his  own  possession.  He  received  his  educa 
tion  in  the  district  and  private  schools  0 
Mountainville,  New  York,  and  has  been 
successful  farmer  all  his  life.  He  is  a  Repub 
liean  in  politics,  and  for  six  years,  from  190 
to  1902,  and  from  1904  to  1906,  served  a 
supervisor  of  the  town  of  Woodbury.  At  on 
time  he  was  postmaster  at  Woodbury  Fall; 
He  is  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  Woodbury 
a  member  and  trustee  in  the  Religious  Societ 
of  Friends.  He  married,  January  14,  1874 
Elizabeth,  born  November  10,  1848,  daughte 
of  Charles  Townsend  and  Martha  ( Weyant' 
Ford.  Children:  1.  Charles  Ford,  born  Tan 
nary  29,  1875  ;  married  Lulu  M.  Viele,  of  Har 
riman,  New  York;  children:  James  and  Mil 
dred.  2.  Jacob  Townsend,  born  January  30 
1877;  married  Mae  L.  Greenleaf;  children 
Melissa  G.,  Elizabeth  and  Elaine.  3.  Mari 
anna,  born  October  12,  1879;  living" at  home 
unmarried.  4.  Edmund,  born  May  20,  1883 
married  Edna  Smith,  of  Harriman ;  child 
Elizabeth  Meta,  born  August  4,  1913.  5 
James  Pierre,  born  March  6,  1885  ;  a  civil  en 
gineer  in  New  York  City. 


Under  the  fierce  per- 
GIRAUD-GEROW     secution  following  the 

Revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes,  October,  1685,  many  of  the 
nobility,  and  over  three  hundred  thousand  of 


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577 


the  most  skillful  artizans  and  leaders  in  indus- 
tries found  refuge  in  America,  which  was 
benefited  by  what  was  lost  to  France.  From 
the  folk  lore  of  this  family  we  learn  they  fled, 
leaving  all  possessions  behind  them,  some  com- 
ing in  slippers  and  laces.  Candles  were  left 
burning  in  silver  candle-sticks,  and  food  left 
untouched  on  the  table. 

At  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  the  two  hun- 
dredth and  twenty-fifth  anniversay  of  the  land- 
ing of  the  French  Huguenots  in  America  was 
celebrated.  By  pageant  the  scene  was  repro- 
duced, an  exact  replica  of  the  caravel  in  which 
they  came  floated  in  the  harbor,  realistic  In- 
dians surrounded  the  strange  ship  as  when 
she  appeared  in  the  waters  years  ago.  Among 
the  invited  guests  were  the  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States,  Secretary  of 
War  Garrison,  Secretary  of  Navy  Daniels,  the 
French  Ambassador  Jusserand  and  M.  Chato- 
net,  delegate  from  France  to  the  celebration. 
In  one  of  the  addresses  on  "The  Huguenot 
in  America,"  it  was  said  in  closing:  "The 
Huguenot  was  one  of  the  most  valuable  agents 
God  ever  furnished  for  American  Liberty  and 
American  Independence."  In  Hudson  Park. 
New  Rochelle,  a  granite  monument  has  been 
erected  by  descendants  of  these  early  settlers, 
and  on  the  bronze  tablet  are  to  be  found  the 
names  of  Giraud.  Coutant.  Chadeyane  and 
others.     From  available  records  we  have : 

(I)  Etienne  Giraud,  of  whom  we  have  no 
information. 

(II)  Daniel  Giraud,  who  came  from  La 
Rochelle,  France,  in  1688,  to  New  Rochelle. 
New  York.  He  married  and  had  three  sons : 
Daniel,  of  whom  further :  Andrew,  of  Fish- 
kill,  New  York ;  Benjamin. 

(III)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (1)  Giraud, 
born  in  1724,  was  a  resident  of  Cortland 
Manor.  During  the  revolutionary  war  he  ob- 
tained a  pass  to  go  through  the  lines  and  pur- 
chased a  large  tract  of  land  from  King 
George's  agent,  which  is  now  known  as  Platte - 
kill,  Ulster  county,  New  York.  The  tract  was 
then  known  as  the  "Ten  Stone  Meadow."  The 
"Pass"  and  deed  for  the  land  is  now  in  pos- 
session of  a  descendant.  The  deed  was  signed 
by  "John  Lake,  Agent."  Daniel  Giraud  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Coutant,  sister  of  Jacob,  Gilbert 
and  Henry  Coutant,  and  settled  in  Westchester 
county,  New  York.  Children :  Elias,  of 
whom  further;  William,  married  Esther  Cha- 
deyane ;    John,    married    Elizabeth     Palmer ; 


James  went  to  St.  John's,  New  Brunswick; 
Daniel  went  to  St.  John's,  New  Brunswick; 

Catharine  married  Yerksie;  Deborah 

married  James  Denton;  Esther,  married  Wil- 
liam Clark;  Betsy  married  James  McCallum ; 
Sarah   married  Jacob   Russell;   Jane   married 

(first  j  Isaac  Brown  (second;  Coutant; 

Mary  married  Adolphus  Shuart. 

(IV)  Elias  Gerow,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Coutant)  Giraud,  was  born  April 
9,  1765,  died  1838.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
born  May,  176S,  daughter  of  Jacob  Coutant. 
Children:  Gilbert,  of  whom  further;  Annie 
married  Ebenezer  Cooley;  Daniel  married 
Lucy  Haviland;  Phebe,  deceased;  Hannah 
married  Samuel  P.  Birdsall;  Catherine  mar- 
ried Smith  Pine ;  Deborah  married  Daniel 
Birdsall,  cousin  of  Samuel  P.  Birdsall;  Wil- 
liam, deceased;  Jacob  married  Jane  Thorn; 
Lydia  H..  married  Samuel  Heaton;  Elias  mar- 
ried Sally  Ann  Barber ;  Isaac  married  Cornelia 
Ann,  daughter  of  Adolphus  and  Alary 
(Giraud)  Shuart.  Elias  Gerow  had  twelve 
children  and  sixty-four  grandchildren,  whose 
descendants  are  many,  scattered  far  and  wide, 
many  of  them  living  in  the  Hudson  river 
towns,  as  also  do  the  descendants  of  William, 
John,  Sarah  and  Mary.  The  French  Hugue- 
not name,  Giraud,  is  still  held  with  pride  by 
many,  others  have  accepted  the  name  as  pro- 
nounced, Gerow.  At  an  early  period  the 
Christian  fellowship  of  this  family  was  with 
the  Society  of  Friends  (often  called  Quakers) 
and  their  influence  for  righteousness  has  left 
a  benediction  on  succeeding  generations. 

(V)  Gilbert,  son  of  Efias  and  Elizabeth 
(Coutant  1  Gerow.  married  Anna,  daughter  of 
Justus  and  Mehetable  Cooley.  Children: 
Louise  married  Harry  Seeley;  Emma  Jane 
married  John  Jackson ;  Elias.'  mentioned  be- 
low:  Justus  married  Phebe  Young;  Asahel 
married  Mary  Townsend ;  John  C,  deceased ; 
Mehetable  married  John  Deming,  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

(VI)  Elias  (2),  son  of  Gilbert  and  Anna 
(Cooley)  Gerow.  married  Sarah  Cooper. 
Children  :  Charles  Cooley,  married  Margaret 
Culbert;  Gilbert  Haviland,  mentioned  below; 
Henrietta  Van  Cleft,  married  Charles  Hull; 
Mary,  died  in  early  life;  Emma  Jane,  married 
William  V.  Many;  Joseph  Cooper,  married 
Jennie  Hathaway,  and  occupies  the  homestead 
at  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county.  New 
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(VII)  Gilbert  Haviland,  son  of  Elias  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Cooper)  Gerow,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Blooming  ( Irove,  <  >range  county,  New 
York,  August  12,  1844,  died  at  Washington- 
ville,  <  )range  county,  New  York,  March  10, 
I'M  1.  I  ie  was  educated  in  the  district  schools 
of  Blooming  Grove  and  at  Antioch  College, 
Ohio.  With  his  brother,  Charles  C.  Gerow, 
and  William  Beattie,  he  was  engaged  in  mill- 
ing and  coal  business  at  Salisbury  Mills,  New 
York.  I. .iter  he  purchased  property  at  Vail's 
Gate,  New  York,  where  for  about  twenty-five 
years  he  conducted  a  general  store,  coal  yard, 
and  lumber  and  feed  business.  After  this  he 
formed  a  partnership  under  the  name  of 
Gerow  &  King,  and  continued  the  business  for 
several  years,  and  this  was  followed  by  the 
firms  of  ( ierow  &  Sun,  Gerow  &  Stone,  Stone 
Brothers,  the  latter  for  a  term  of  ten  years. 
Mr.  Gerow  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Newburgh  Carpet  Company,  of  Newburgh, 
New  York,  of  which  he  was  treasurer.  He  was 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Tenth  Separate 
Company  of  New  York  State,  having  served 
the  required  term  of  years,  also  honorary- 
member  of  the  Fire  Department.  Washii 
ville.  Me  was  early  a  member  of 
gational  church  of  Blooming  Grove,  and  later 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Wash- 
ingtonville. 

He  married,  <  >ctober  23,  1872,  Alletta  Rem- 
sen,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Rapelye  and 
Catherine    (  White )    Rente,   who   was  born   at 
Napanoch,     Ulster    county,    New    York    ( see 
Rente  \  III.).     Children:     1.  Charles  Halcott, 
born  December  31,  [873,  died  March  [6,  1875. 
2.  James  Frank,  born  May  6,   [876,  died  May 
[9,  1878.    3.  Arthur  Riker,  burn  April  S,  1879; 
now    with    the    Newburgh    Carpet    Company, 
Newburgh,    New    York.     4.    Ryman    Abbott, 
burn   <  ictober   4,    1880;   graduate   of    Rutgers 
,  1906.     5.  Waller  Haviland,  born  July 
-'4;  now  at  Young  Men's  Christian    \s 
sociatiun  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.    6.  < '.il- 
licit Westcott,  born  April  2j,   1886;  now  en- 
gaged in  coal  and  feed  business  at  the  original 
Vail's    Rate    stand   which    was   established    in 
.   the  late  Gilbert  H.  Gerow. 
(The    Riker-Lent    Lines.) 

From  European  genealogy  we  learn  that  the 
Rykers  were  located  at  a  very  remote  period 
in  Lower  Saxony,  where  they  enjoyed  a  state 
of  allodial  independence,  at  that  day  constitut- 


ing nubility.  1  here  they  possessed  the  estat 
or  Manor  of  Ryken,  from  which  they  too 
their  name,  written  von  Ryken.  Subsequent] 
the  name  suffered  changes;  de  Ryke,  de  Ryl 
Rieche,  etc.,  von  Lentum,  von  Lent,  Len' 
Lente. 

1  l.nis  von  Ryken,  with  his  cousin,  Mel 
choir  von  Ryken,  a  valiant  knight,  wh 
lived  in  Holland,  went  in  the  First  Crusade  t 
the  Holy  Land  in  1096,  heading  eight  hundre 
crusaders  in  the  army  of  Walter  the  Penniless 
i-  von  Ryken  lived  to  return,  but  Han 
von  Ryken  perished  in  that  ill-fated  expedi 
tion.  The  coat-of-arms  borne  by  the  famil 
is  thus  explained:  The  shield  azure,  em 
blematic  of  knighthood;  the  horns,  indicatini 
physical  strength;  the  gulden  stars,  a  strivini 
for  glory,  and  the  white  roses,  symbol  of  dis 
cretion  and  fidelity.  In  time  the  descendant 
of  Melchoir  von  Ryken  extended  from  Hoi 
land  to  Switzerland  and  America.  Before  th 
family  is  mentioned  in  America  we  learn  the" 
occupied  places  of  public  trust  for  two  cen 
turies,  until  the  Spanish  war  occasioned  grea 
reverses  in  their  fortunes.  Captain  Jacobu 
Simonsz  de  Ryken,  of  Amsterdam,  a  warn 
partisan  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  distin 
!  himself  by  military  services  when  tha 
Prince  defended  Dutch  liberty,  and  the  famil] 
for  successive  generations  during  the  strugglt 
with  Spain  followed  a  military  career.  I  Rik 
\nnals  of  Newtown. ) 
(  I  )  Gysbert  ur  Guisbert  Rycken.  founder  ol 
the  family  in  America,  emigrated  to  New  Am 
sterdam  from  Holland  about  1630.  Prac- 
tically all  that  is  known  about  him  is  the  in- 
tion  on  the  gravestone  of  his  grandson 
Abraham,  son  of  Abraham  and  Margarel 
Riker,  which  reads:  "The  grave  of  Abraharr 
son  of  Wiraham  ami  Margaret  Riker 
born  1655,  died  August  20,  1746,  in  the  91st 
year  of  his  age:  and  in  memory  of  his  grand- 
sire,  Guisbert  Riker,  a  native  of  Holland,  whe 
came  to  America  in  1630,  obtained  a  patent 
for  land  at  the  Bowery  bearing  date  1632." 

(II)  Abraham,  son  of  Gysbert  or  Guisbert 
Rycken,  was  born  in  1619,  died  in  1689.  He 
married  Grietje  Hendrickse,  daughter  of  Hen- 
drick  Harmensen.  In  1642  he  purchased  prop- 
erty on  the  Heeren  Gracht,  now  Broad  street. 
Rlis  children  were  baptized  in  the  church  at 
Fort  Amsterdam.  Children :  Ryck  Abraham- 
sen,  mentioned  below;  Jacobus,  born  7640, 
died   in   infancy;   Jacobus,   born    1643;   Hen- 


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drick,  born  in  1646,  died  young;  Marytje,  born 
in  [649,  married  Sibout  Krankheyt;  Jan,  born 
in  1651,  married  Sara  Schouten ;  Alletta,  born 
in  1653,  married  Captain  John  Harmensen; 
Abraham,  born  in  1655,  died  August  20,  1746, 
married  Grietje  Janse  van  Buytenhuysen ; 
Hendrick,  born  in  1662,  joined  his  brothers, 
Ryck  A.  and  Jacobus,  in  Westchester  county, 
New  York,  and  changed  his  name  to  Lent 

(III)  Ryck  Abrahamsen,  son  of  Abra- 
ham Gysbrechtsen  and  ( irictjc  (Hendrickse) 
Rycken,   was   born   on   Long   Island,   died    in 

hester  county.  New  York.  He  changed 
his  name  to  Lent,  and  with  his  brother  Hen- 
drick became  the  ancestors  of  the  family  of 
that  name.  In  1685  he  bought  from  the  In- 
n  extensive  tract  of  land,  eighteen  hun- 
dred acres,  in  Westchester  county,  which  sub- 
tly became  famous  under  the  name  of 
"Ryek's  Patent."  He  was  an  elder  in  the 
Dutch  Church  at  Sleepy  Hollow,  and  died 
1  1  March  30,  1720,  and  March  28,  1723, 

the  dates  of  the  writing  and  proving  of  his 
will.  He  married  Catrina,  daughter  of  Harck 
Sibotitsen  and  Wyntje  Tenuis.  Children: 
1  eth,  married  Thomas  Hyers ;  Abraham, 

mentions!  below;  Ryck,  born  in  1678,  married 
Marytje    Blauvelt ;    Harck   01 
in   [681,  died  in   1766,  married  Cornelia  Van 
Wart ;    Margaret,    married    Thomas    Benson ; 
Catharine,  married  Joseph  Jones. 

(IV)  Abraham  Lent,  son  of  Ryck  Abra- 
hamsen and  Catrina  Lent,  was  born  in  West- 
chester county,  New  York,  March  10,  1674, 
Sled  in  Newtown,  Long  Island,  February  5. 
1741'.  He  lived  for  some  years  in  Westchester 
county,  and  in  1729  settled  in  Newtown.  He 
married,  late  in  1698,  Anna  Catrina,  daughter 
of  Adolph  and  Maria  (Verveelen)  Meyer, 
who  died  July  21,  1762,  aged  eighty-six  years. 
Her  father  was  a  deacon  in  the  church  at 
Sleepy  Hollow.  Children:  Ryck,  died  in 
1732.  married,  December  26.  1722,  Cornelia 
Waldron ;  Adolph,  born  in  1703 ;  Isaac,  mar- 
ried Sara  Luyster;  Abraham,  married  Mar- 
garet Snediker  ;  Jacob  ;  Jacobus,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Catrina,  married  Elbert  Herring ;  Eliza- 
beth, married  Jacob  Brinckerhoff ;  Maria,  mar- 
ried John  Rapelye;  Wyntje,  married  Jeromus 
Rapelye ;  Ann,  married  Jan  Brinckerhoff. 

( V )  Jacobus,  son  of  Abraham  and  Catrina 
(Meyer)  Lent,  was  born  in  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  July  3,  1714,  died  in  New- 
town, Long  Island,  December  13,   1779.     He 


married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Daniel  Rape- 
lye, who  died  September  11,  1794,  in  her 
seventy-fourth  year.  Children:  Abraham, 
born  February  15,  1745,  died  April  13,  1816, 
married  Diana  Lawrence ;  Alletta,  born  April 
24,  1747,  married  George  Rapelye;  Daniel, 
mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Daniel,  son  of  Jacobus  and  Margaret 
lye)   Lent,  was  borri  in  Newtown,  Long 

May  31,  1754.  died  there,  April  20, 
1797.  He  was  the  last  of  the  family  to  live  on 
the  original  Rycken-Lent  estate  at  Armen 
Bouwerie.  He  married,  December  9,  1792. 
Rensie,  daughter  of  Martin  Rapelye.  Child: 
Daniel,  mentioned  below.  Four  children  died 
in  infancy. 

(VII)  Daniel  (2).  son  of  Daniel  (1)  and 
Rensie  (Rapelye)  Lent,  was  born  in  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  August  30.  1707.  died  in  Flush- 
ing Bay,  Long  Island.  He  was  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City,  and  in  later  life  bought  a 
farm  at  Flushing  Bay.  lie  married,  June  6, 
1821,  Jane  Catharine,  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Rapelye  Remsen.  Children :  James  Rapelye, 
mentioned  below  ;  Cornelius  Remsen,  married 
Ama  Nafis :  Charles  Henry,  married  Ama 
Thorborn ;  Elizabeth  Catharine,  married 
Charles  Halcott,  deceased  ;  Theodore,  died  in 
infancy. 

The  name  of  van  Lente  was  retained 
by  si  me  of  the  family  until  the  last  century, 
1  n  it  was  dropped  and  the  plain  Lent  was 
A  few  also  spelled  their  name  with  a 
final  "e,"  Lente,  as  the  best  abbreviation  of  the 
name  at  one  time  taken,  van  Lenten,  from  a 
maternal  inheritance.  The  Rev.  James  Ra- 
pelye Lente,  of  Washingtonville,  of  more  than 
ninety  years  of  age,  and  his  son,  Edward 
Prime  Lente,  are  probably  the  only  ones  bear- 
ing this  rendering  at  the  present  time.  It  is 
recorded  that  the  Lents  lived  friendly  with 
the  native  Indians,  no  record  of  any  trouble 
arising  between  them  having  been  found.  The 
Lents  were  numerous  in  the  Continental  army 
They  voluntarily  took  up  arms  and  fought 
bravely  for  freedom  from  the  yoke  of  Great 
Britain.  Sir  Henry  Clinton  said  he  could 
neither  ''buy  nor  conquer  these  Dutchmen." 

(  Y1TI )  The  Rev.  James  Rapelye  Lente,  son 
of  Daniel  (2)  and  Jane  Catharine  (Remsen) 
Lent,  was  born  in  Flushing,  Long  Island, 
April  18,  1822,  and  is  now  living  at  Washing- 
tonville, Orange  county.  New  York.  After 
being     tutored     by     Rev.     Garrett     J.     Gar- 


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retson,  pastor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  of  Newtown,  Long  Island,  he- 
prepared  for  college  at  Erasmus  Hall 
and  graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in 
1842.  After  teaching  at  Erasmus  Hall  (  Pre- 
paratory School)  for  three  years,  he  entered 
the  New  Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  and 
graduated  in  [850.  lie  took  charge  for  a  few 
months  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  at 
Coxsackie  Landing.  Greene  county,  New 
York,  in  the  absence  of  the  pastor,  then  be- 
came pastor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church 
at  Napanoch,  New  York.  Two  years  later  he 
became  pastor  of  the  Collegiate  churches  at 
Bloomingdale  and  Rosendale,  New  York,  and 
ten  years  later,  in  1X114,  he  retired  on  account 
of  ill  health  and  has  since  lived  at  Washing 
tonville,  New  York.  lie  married  Catherine. 
daughter  of  Colonel  John  White,  who  was 
horn  January  22,  [825,  died  May  27,  1SS7 
Children:  Alletta  Remsen,  born  September 
23.  '853,  married,  October  23,  1872,  Gilbert 
Haviland  Gerow  (see  Gerow  VII);  Edward 
Prime,  born   November  5.    1X57,  unmarried. 


The  name  Thornton  is 
THORNTON  said  to  have  been  derived 
from  Thor,  the  ancient 
northern  deity.  A  different  origin  C,  however, 
suggested  by  the  coats-of-arms  of  two  of  the 
oldest  Thornton  families  of  England,  the 
Thorntons  of  Yorkshire,  and  the  Thorntons 
of  Tiersall,  which  hear  upon  them  three  haw 
thorn  trees  or  bushes  which  suggest  the  com- 
bination of  the  "thorn"  and  "town."  The 
name  de  Thornton  also  appears  in  the  early 
annals,  indicating  a  possible  Norman  ancestry. 
There  are  many  families  in  Ireland  and  Scot- 
land hearing  the  name  of  Thornton,  hut  in 
these  cases  it  is  said  that  the  patronymic  is 
usually  an  English  rendering  of  the  Gaelic 
Mac  Skenaghan  or  Mac  Sceinaghan,  the  root 
of  the  name  being  from  the  Gaelic  word 
"seeine,"  a  knife.  Lower  derives  the  English 
name  in  some  cases  from  parishes  and  places 
in  the  counties  in  England  of  Buckingham- 
shire, Durham,  and  adjacent  districts.  York- 
shire abounds  with  places  so-called.  Thorne 
appears  to  have  been  an  old  Anglo-Saxon  per- 
sonal name;  and  hence  Thornton  may  have 
been  in  some  cases  the  homestead  of  Thorne. 
There  are  numerous  families  hearing  the 
name  of  Thornton  in  the  United  States.  One 
of  the  earliest  Thornton  emigrants  to  America 


was  William  Thornton,  who  came  from  York- 
shire. England,  prior  to  1646,  and  settled  in 
York  county,  Virginia.  This  William  Thorn- 
ton was  the  ancestor  of  a  large  number  of 
prominent  descendants,  some  of  whom  became 
connected  by  marriage  with  the  family  of 
<  ieorge  Washington,  and  some  with  the  family 
of  President  Zachary  Taylor.  Dr.  John  N.  F. 
Thornton,  who  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
President  William  Henry  Harrison,  was  prob- 
ably of  this  family.  Another  early  immigrant 
to  America  was  John  Thornton,  who  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  hirst  Baptist  Church 
of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in  1648.  The  Rev, 
Thomas  'Thornton,  who  came  from  England 
in  [663,  and  settled  at  Yarmouth,  Massachu- 
setts, was  the  ancestor  of  descendants  of  emi- 
nence. James  Thornton,  father  of  the  lion 
Matthew  Thornton,  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  emigrated  frorr 
Ireland  t<>  America  in  [718.  There  were  othei 
Thornton  families  that  settled  in  Massachu- 
setts. Connecticut,  New  York,  PennsylvaniE 
and  Virginia. 

(  I)  James  Thornton,  the  immigrant  ances- 
tor in  America  of  the  Thornton  family  hen 
dealt  with,  was  horn  near  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land, in  1684,  died  November  7,  1754.  at  Easl 
Derry,  New  Hampshire.  'The  family  of  James 
Thornton  lived  on  a  farm  about  a  mile  fron 
the  city  of  Londonderry  ami  were  subject  tc 
frequent  visits  from  King  (ames's  troops. 
James  and  his  family  is  said  to  have  been  oik 
of  one  hundred  ami  twenty  families,  who  ir 
five  small  ships  arrived  at  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, August  5,  171s,  and  in  the  fall  of  tha' 
year  went  to  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  Maine 
where  they  spent  the  winter  on  shipboard,  en 
during  great  hardships.  'They  then  went  tc 
Wiscasset,  Maine,  and  after  a  stay  there  of  1 
few  years  they  moved  to  Worcester,  Massa 
chusetts.  In  Worcester  they  lived  on  a  farn 
near  Tactknuck  Hill,  adjoining  the  town  o: 
Leicester.  The  only  record  that  has  beer 
found  of  the  wife  of  James  Thornton  is  it 
the  deed  of  the  Worcester  family,  dated  Feb 
ruary  14.  1739-40,  in  which  "Keturah"  Thorn 
ton  joins.  In  1740  James  Thornton  movec 
from  Worcester  to  Pelham,  Massachusetts 
of  which  town  he  was  one  of  the  founder; 
and  principal  proprietors.  He  remained  ir 
Pelham,  where  he  held  various  town  offices 
until  1748,  when  he  moved  to  Londonderry 
New   Llampshire,   where  he   r -sided   until   hi; 


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death,  November  7,  1754.  He  is  buried  in 
Forest  Hills  cemetery,  East  Derry,  New 
Hampshire,  beside  his  daughter,  Hannah  Wal- 
lace. He  married  Nancy  Smith.  Children: 
1.  James.  2.  Andrew.  3.  Matthew,  born  near 
Londonderry,  Ireland,  in  1714,  died  June  24, 
1803 ;  he  was  the  most  prominent  member  of 
the  Thornton  family ;  he  settled  in  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  became  distinguished  a? 
a  physician,  judge,  statesman,  and  patriot  in 
the  revolution;  he  was  one  of  the  signers  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  for  the  State 
of  New  Hampshire,  and  the  history  of  his  life 
is  to  be  found  among  the  Lives  of  the  Signers. 
He  was  buried  at  Thornton's  Ferry,  New 
Hampshire,  where  a  monument  to  his  memory 
was  erected  in  1872  by  the  State  of  New 
Hampshire.  4.  Agnes.  5.  William,  mentioned 
below.     6.  Samuel.     7.  Hannah.     8.  Esther. 

(II)  William,  fourth  son  of  James  and 
Nancy  (Smith)  Thornton,  was  with  his  father 
one  of  the  settlers  of  Pelham,  Massachusetts, 
in  1740,  and  as  a  surveyor  he  assisted  in  the 
laying  out  of  the  town.  In  1744  he  left  Pel- 
ham  and  moved  to  Kingsfield  (now  Palmer), 
Massachusetts,  where  he  had  a  farm  on  the 
east  side  of  Dumplin  Hill.  Here  his  sons, 
William,  Matthew  and  James,  were  probably 
born.  In  March,  1748,  William  sold  his  farm 
at  Palmer  and  became  the  first  settler  of  Dub- 
lin, New  Hampshire,  which  town  was  granted 
in  1749  to  the  Hon.  Matthew  Thornton  and 
others.  The  farm  in  Dublin  on  which  William 
Thornton,  settled  was  owned  by  the  Hon. 
Matthew  Thornton  and  was  subsequently  sold 
by  him  to  Deacon  Isaac  Appleton.  A  small 
monument  has  been  erected  on  this  farm  to 
mark  the  settlement  of  the  town.  Two  chil- 
dren were  born  to  William  Thornton  during 
'his  residence  in  Dublin,  a  daughter.  Molly,  in 
1741  >,  said  to  have  been  the  first  white  child 
born  in  the  town,  and  a  son,  Thomas.  William 
Thornton  remained  in  Dublin  until  about  1753, 
when  he  left  on  account  of  the  Indians,  and 
with  his  family  moved  to  Schenectady,  New 
York,  where  his  son  John  was  born  in  1753. 
William  Thornton  and  his  sons,  Matthew  and 
James,  served  in  the  border  warfare,  their 
names  appearing  on  the  muster  roll  of  Captain 
Daniel  Campbell's  company,  of  Schenectady, 
on  May  12,  1767.  From  a  deed  dated  Febru- 
ary 3.  l77°,  ^  appears  that  William  Thornton 
was  then  of  Curry's  Brook  or  Bush,  near 
Princeton,  Albany  county,  New  York.    He  re- 


turned to  New  Hampshire,  and  after  living  in 
Londonderry  in  1773  and  1774,  he  went  to 
Thornton,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death.  Children:  1.  William, 
born  in  1745,  married  Dolly  Bayley,  of  Can- 
dia,  New  Hampshire ;  they  had  seven  children 
born  between  1784  and  1799.  2.  Matthew,  born 
December  6,  1746,  undoubtedly  at  Palmer, 
Massachusetts,  where  his  father  then  lived ;  he 
was  probably  with  his  father  when  the  latter 
became  the  first  settler  of  Dublin,  New  Hamp- 
shire, about  the  year  1748.  and  moved  with 
him  to  Schenectady,  New  York,  in  1753 ;  he 
married,  March  30,  1768,  Mary  Crawford,  and 
their  first  child,  Dorcas,  born  March  12,  1770, 
was  baptized  at  Schenectady,  New  York,  June 
12,  1770.  3.  James,  born  about  1747,  probably 
at  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  went  with  his 
father's  family  to  Dublin,  New  Hampshire, 
about  the  year  1748,  and  moved  with  them  to 
Schenectady,  New  York,  in  1753;  the  muster 
roll  of  Captain  Dan  Campbell's  company,  of 
Schenectady,  May  12,  1767,  gives  the  names  of 
James  Thornton  and  of  his  father  and  brother, 
Matthew;  James  also  served  in  the  war  of  the 
revolution  in  the  Second  Regiment,  Albany 
county;  he  married  Antje  Schermerhorn  and 
had  three  children,  May,  William,  Margarieta. 
4.  Molly,  born  in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire, 
about  the  year  1749.  5.  Thomas,  bom  in  1751, 
probably  in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire;  he 
moved  to  Schenectady,  New  York,  with  his 
father  in  1753;  he  was  a  school  teacher  and 
served  in  the  war  of  revolution  in  the  Second 
Regiment,  Albany  county ;  he  married  Eliza- 
beth Richardson,  sister  of  Paris  Richardson, 
aide  to  General  Washington ;  they  had  seven 
children,  William,  Euretta,  Elizabeth,  Thomas, 
Charles,  Wallace,  George.  6.  John,  mentioned 
below. 

(Ill)  Major  John  Thornton,  youngest  son 
of  William  Thornton,  was  born  at  Schenec- 
tady, New  York,  in  1753.  He  served  with  dis- 
tinction in  the  war  of  the  revolution.  He  was 
first  lieutenant  in  Captain  Thomas  Wasson's 
company  in  the  Second  Regiment,  Schenec- 
tady division.  His  brothers,  James  and 
Thomas,  served  in  the  same  war.  Captain, 
later  Major,  John  Thornton  served  with 
Colonel  Willets  along  the  Mohawk  Valley,  and 
as  major  he  commanded  the  escort  to  General 
Washington  and  General  Clinton  from  Fort 
Plain  to  Cherry  Valley  and  Otsego  Lake  and 
return,  during  the  summer  of  1783      On  Jan- 


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uary  25,  1786,  Major  Thornton  purchased  3 
farm  of  one  hundred  acres  at  Curry's  Bush 
(or  Brook)  in  the  town  of  Princeton,  Albany 
county.  New  York,  which  farm  had  been 
owned  by  Daniel  Clyde  in  1 77 1 .  Jlc  married 
Ann  (Adelia)  Clyde,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Samuel  Clyde,  born  October  25,  1764.  Chil- 
dren: William  A.,  mentioned  below;  George, 
died  young;  Adelia,  married  Volney  Freeman, 
of  Schenectady;  Catherine,  who  died  un- 
married. 

(IV)  William  A.,  eldest  son  of  Major  John 
and  Ann  or  Adelia  (Clyde)  Thornton,  was 
born  August  29,  [802,  at  Albany,  New  York, 
died  April  (1,  [866,  on  Governor's  Island.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  ol  and  wa= 
appinted  cadet  at  West  Point  in  [821,  gradu- 
ating in  1825.  lie  was  appointed  lieutenant  of 
artillery  on  the  Mali"  of  General  Scott  in  the 
Black  Hawk  campaign,  and  later  served  in  the 
Seminole    Indian    war,    Florida.       When    the 

■  e   coi  ps    wa  •   1  reated 
was  assigned  to  that  corps,  where  lie  remained 
until   the   time   of   his   death       I  I      wa      made 

,  ice  in  the 
Mexican  war  and  brevet-brigadier  general  for 
distinguished  service  in  the  civil  war.  His 
rank  was  colonel  of  ordnance.  United  States 
Army.     At  different  times  It.  wa  tii  ned  at 

Watervliet,    New    York,    Watertown,    M 

tts,  and  on  Governor's  Bland,  New  York 
1  [arbor.  I  [e  married,  in  1833,  1  Men,  daughter 
of  I  >r.  ( iilbert  Smith,  of  New  York  ( lit) 
Thornton's  mother  was  Helena  De  Witt,  and 
connected  with  the  De  Witt  family  of  revolu- 
tionary fame  along  the  Hudson.  Children: 
Adelia,  married  Colonel  James  S.  Casey 
Cnited  States  Army,  died  in  1S75  ;  William  A  . 
who  was  a  paymaster  during  the  war  and  died 
in  1872;  George  De  Witt,  who  died  in  1883; 
Nora,  who  married  John  H.  Walsh,  died  in 
1004:  Howard,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Howard,  son  of  William  A.  and  Helen 
(Smith)  Thornton,  was  horn  on  Governor's 
Bland,  Yew  York,  February  25,  1849  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New 
York  City,  and  fur  a  time  was  a  student  of  the 
j  ge  of  the  City  of  Xew  York,  later  of 
Union  College,  Schenectady,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  the  class  of  1872  with  the  degree  of 
A.B.  He  then  settled  in  Newburgh,  where  he 
read  law  in  the  office  of  Eugene  A.  Brewster, 
and  in  1874  graduated  from  the  Albany  Law 
S.ln, nl  with  degree  of  LL.B.     He  continued 


in  his  profession  for  a  number  of  years  ii 
Newburgh,  where  he  still  retains  an  office,  Ii 
1892-93-94  he  was  a  member  of  the  New  Yorl 
State  assembly  and  chairman  of  the  judician 
committee  in  1894.  lie  is  a  member  of  thi 
Military  <  >rder  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Sons  o 
the  American  Revolution,  University  ant 
Transportation  chilis,  of  New  York  City,  o 
the  City  and  Powelton  clubs  of  Newburgh 
lie  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  educatioi 
of  the  city  of  Newburgh  from  1906  for  fou: 
years.  In  1909  he  was  elected  president  o 
the  National  Bank  of  Newburgh,  a  positioi 
he  still  holds.  He  was  trustee  of  the  Washing 
i' 'ii  Headquarters,  and  part  of  the  time  presi 
dent  of  the  board.  lie  is  a  past  master  o 
Hudson  River  Lodge,  No.  '107,  Free  and  Ac 
cepted  Masons..  He  married,  October  19 
1807,  Julia  B.  Sterling,  daughter  of  Charles  H 
Burr,  of  Astoria,  Lung  Island. 

Colonel  Samuel  Clyde  was  born  at  Wind 
ham.  Rockingham  county.  Yew  Hampshire 
April  ii,  ij.1,2.  The  family  of  Clyde  wer< 
originally  from  the  banks  of  that  river  in  Scot 
land,  whose  name  they  bore.  They  had  set 
tied  in  Ireland  in  the  time  of  Cromwell  and  : 
branch  came  to  this  country  in  that  large  emi 
gration  from  Londonderry  in  Ireland,  whicl 
settled  the  town  of  the  same  name  in  Nev 
Hampshire.  They  were  mostly  farmers.  Tin 
father  of  Colonel  Clyde  owned  and  cultivate! 
a  small  farm  on  which  the  son  labored  unti 
nearly  twenty  years  of  age.  He  wa: 
well  educated  for  a  farmer's  son  in  those  times 
and  being  of  an  enterprising  character  sough 
a  wider  field  of  labor,  lie  first  engaged  it 
the  trade  of  shipbuilder  and  later  joined  it 
the  war  in  this  country  between  England  an; 
France.  Captain  Clyde  was  in  the  disastroui 
attack  on  Ticonderoga.  In  17(11  he  marriec 
Catherine  Wasson  at  Schenectady.  He  wa 
prominent  in  the  war  of  the  revolution,  an< 
one  of  the  small  forts  in  the  Mohawk  Valle] 
was  named  Fort  Clyde  in  his  honor.  He  wa: 
appointed  high  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Mont 
gomery  in  1785  and  this  office  he  held  fo: 
several  years.  The  county  seat  was  at  John 
ston,  and  the  office  of  sheriff  of  such  an  ex 
tensive  county  was  one  of  great  labor  anc 
responsibility.  He  was  greatly  beloved  by  hi: 
fellow-officers  and  soldiers  and  a  vacancy  hav 
ing  happened  in  the  office  of  brigadier,  in  th< 
brigade  to  which  his  regiment  was  attached 
he  was  earnestly  urged  by  those  under  his  im 


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mediate  command  to  accept  the  appointment, 
but  he  declined,  giving  the  honor  to  men  hold- 
ing older  commissions.  He  was  from  the 
commencement  to  the  close  of  the  war  chair- 
man for  the  committee  of  safety  for  the 
county,  anil  he  was  also  elected  a  member  of 
the  legislature  from  the  county  of  Tryon. 
Colonel  Clyde  died  on  his  farm  at  Cherry  Val- 
ley, November  30,  1790,  in  his  fifty-eighth 
year. 


The    surname,    Seeger,    is    ( ler- 
SEEGER     man  in  origin.    It  is  pronounced 

*'Sager"  in  that  language.  The 
name  is  well  known  in  Germany,  but  it  is  not 
what  could  be  called  a  popular  name.  There 
is  also  an  English  form  of  the  name  derived 
from  Segar  and  Seager.  This  name  is  derived 
from  the  Anglo-Saxon  word,  akin  to  that  of 
German,  namely,  "sigora,"  meaning  a  "con- 
queror," or  "sigor,"  meaning  "victorious." 
In  this  form  it  was  an  ancient  personal  name 
before  surnames  came  into  use,  and  occurs  in 
the  Domesday  Book  under  the  forms  of  Segar, 
Sigar  and  Sigarus.  Another  derivation  of  the 
English  name  is  from  the  northern  counties, 
pronunciation  of  or  rather  provincialism  for 
"sawyer,"  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  "saga," 
meaning  "a  saw."  In  Poiton,  moreover,  there 
is  a  local  surname — De  Segur.  From  this 
Norman  surname  it  is  possible  that  the  English 
form  or  variation  may  be  derived.  Of  course 
it  is  not  contended  that  there  is  any  relation- 
ship between  the  bearers  of  this  surname. 
They  have  in  all  cases  come  by  it  by  chance 
and  there  is  no  more  connection  between  them, 
beyond  similarity  of  the  name,  than  if  one 
had  fallen  into  the  name  of  Baker,  and  the 
other  had  taken  that  of  Butcher.  This  may  be 
said  of  nearly  all  occupational  names.  They 
were  assumed  in  an  entirely  independent  and 
arbitrary  manner,  and  there  is  consequently  no 
sense  whatever  in  such  phrases,  common 
among  those  who  try  their  hand  at  genealogy, 
as  "the  Smith  family"  or  the  "Tanner  family," 
and  so  on.  The  German  Seegers  were  of  good 
social  standing  in  the  old  country,  and  many 
of  them  had  the  right  to  bear  arms. 

(J)  Louis  Seeger,  M.D.,  the  ancestor  in  Ger- 
many of  the  Seeger  family  in  America  here 
dealt  with,  was  a  practising  physician  in  his 
own  country,  but  died  early  in  life  in  the  village 
of  Feldrennach  on  the  borders  of  the  Schwarz •■ 


wald,  or  Black  Forest.     Among  his  children 
was  John,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Louis  Seeger,  M.D.,  was 
born  in  the  kingdom  of  Wurtemberg,  Ger- 
many, in  the  year  1835.  and  died  at  Newburgh, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  in  1888.  lie  was 
a  cabinetmaker  by  trade,  and  he  was  a  member 
of  a  sharpshooter  corps  in  Germany  before 
coming  to  the  United  States.  He  came  to 
America  in  the  year  i860,  and  he  was  engaged 
at  his  trade  in  Goshen,  and  later  at  Newburgh, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  where  he  became  a 
stair  builder  for  Charles  Volckmer.  In  reli- 
gious faith  he  was  a  Lutheran.  He  married 
Louise  Hammer,  who  was  born  at  Laufen,  on 
the  Neckar,  in  the  kingdom  of  Wurtemberg, 
Germany.  Children:  Albert  H.  F.,  mentioned 
below,  and  several  daughters. 

(III )  Albert  H.  F.,  son  of  John  and  Louise 
(Hammer)  Seeger,  was  born  at  Stuttgart,  in 
the  kingdom  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1859.  He  came  to  the  United  States 
in  April,  [861,  at  the  age  of  two  years,  with 
his  mother,  his  father  having  come  over  from 
Germany  six  months  previously.  Young  See- 
ger and  his  mother  made  the  trip  from  Bremen 
to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  a  sailing  vessel 
The  ship  encountered  calm  weather,  and  the 
trip  occupied  seventy-two  days.  For  some 
time  Mrs.  Seeger  and  one  of  her  daughters, 
Catherine  M.  Seeger,  made  their  home  at  No. 
247  First  street,  Newburgh,  Orange  county. 
New  York,  where  Albert  H.  F.  Seeger  also 
at  one  time  resided. 

The  Seeger  family  first  resided  in  Goshen, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  but  came  to  New- 
burgh in  1867.  Young  Seeger  saw  the  founda- 
tion of  the  third  ward  grammar  school  (now 
the  South  Street  school)  laid,  living  near  the 
site  of  the  building,  which  he  saw  erected,  and 
where  he  afterwards  attended  school,  starting 
the  first  day  the  school  was  opened.  After  his 
graduation  from  there  he  attended  the  New- 
burgh Academy,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1875.  The  same  year  he  entered  the  law 
office  of  Colonel  William  D.  Dickey  in  the 
Stern  Building  at  Water  and  Third  streets, 
in  Newburgh.  He  was  clerk  for  Colonel 
Dickey  until  1886,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  May  14,  1880.  In  1886  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  the  late  L.  W.  Y.  McCrosk- 
ery,  a  son  of  former  Mayor  John  J.  S.  Mc- 
Croskery.  This  partnership  continued  two 
years,  and  after  that  Mr.  Seeger  and  the  late 


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Frank  H.  Cassedy  became  partners  in  the  prac- 
tice of  the  law,  the  partnership  continuing  for 
six  months.  Since  that  time  Judge  Seeger  lias 
practiced  alone.  One  of  Judge  Seeger's  stu- 
dents was  Henry  Kohl,  a  prominent  and  suc- 
cessful lawyer  of  Newburgh,  later  its  corpora- 
tion counsel.  Another  was  Addison  C.  Orms- 
bee,  a  graduate  of  Cornell  University,  who 
after  leaving  Judge  Seeger's  office  entered  into 
partnership  with  Mr.  Kohl.  They  practiced 
law  for  some  years  together,  and  then  Mr. 
Ormsbee  went  to  New  York,  where  he  prac- 
tii  ed  until  his  death  in  1908.  Another  student 
of  his  was  Edward  J.  Collins,  formerly  of  Port 
Jervis,  who  is  a  successful  practicing  lawyer 
in  Newburgh.  Still  another  was  Peter  Can- 
tine,  a  rising  lawyer  of  the  cits  of  Newburgh, 
and  at  present  its  recorder. 

Dining  these  years  Judge  Seeger  did  not 
make  specialties,  but  engaged  in  all  branches 
of  the  law.  both  civil  and  criminal,  lie  has 
been  counsel  for  a  number  of  towns  in  i  (range 
county,  also  for  Newburgh  City  and  Town 
Home  and  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  -  ame 
city.  Judge  Seeger  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  district  court  of  the  United  Stales  and 
the  United  States  circuit  court  in  1886.  lie 
has  been  engaged  in  the  trial  of  many  impor- 
tant cases,  in  [886  he  tried  the  case  of  Town- 
send  versus  George  in  the  United  States  cir- 
cuit court  in  New  York  City.  This  was  stub- 
bornly contested  and  he  was  successful  in  re- 
covering some  mining  leases  on  the  Townsend 
farm,  in  the  town  of  Cornwall.  In  1888  the 
failure  of  the  firm  of  John  R.  Willsie  &  Son 
occurred  in  Newburgh.  John  M.  Pollock,  of 
the  firm,  had  been  a  schoolmate  of  Judge 
Seeger,  and  appealed  to  him  for  assistance, 
and  Judge  Seeger  defended  him.  Although 
Pollock  was  at  first  convicted  ami  sentenced  to 
five  years'  imprisonment  in  Sing  Sing  prison, 
Judge  Seeger  took  an  appeal  and  succeeded  in 
securing  a  reversal  of  judgment  and  the  dis- 
missal of  several  indictments  against  Pollock. 
Since  that  time  Judge  Seeger  has  had  numer- 
ous important  cases.  One  of  his  most  cele- 
brated cases  was  that  of  Quackenbush  versus 
the  Hon.  William  P.  Richardson,  who  was 
formerly  state  senator  from  the  district  of 
Newburgh.  This  was  an  action  to  recover  for 
alleged  malicious  prosecution.  The  plaintiff, 
who  was  a  debtor  of  the  defendant,  on  account 
of  the  illness  of  his  wife,  left  the  state  with 
her,  the  impression  following  that  he  had  ab- 


sconded. Senator  Richardson,  who  was  a  res 
dent  of  the  town  of  Goshen,  subsequently  ha 
Quackenbush  arrested.  Judge  Seeger,  who  u 
to  that  time  had  not  held  any  public  office,  s< 
cured  the  release  of  Quackenbush,  and  the 
had  what  proved  to  be  a  clear  case  again; 
Senator  Richardson.  He  conducted  the  cas 
to  a  speedy  finish  and  secured  a  judgment  fo 
his  client  against  the  senator  for  a  considerabl 
amount,  in  fact  for  the  largest  sum  ever  rea 
ized  in  a  similar  ease  in  that  county  up  to  ths 
time. 

Judge  Seeger  has  always  been  a  Republicar 
He  has  held  elective  office  but  twice,  bavin 
been  chosen  district  attorney  to  succeed  A.  \ 
N.  Powelson,  in  1003,  he  having  been  Mi 
Powelson's  .assistant  for  seven  years  previousl 
by  appointment.  While  the  number  of  cor 
vieiions  secured  by  District  Attorney  Seege 
was  large,  he  takes  pride  in  the  fact  that  h 
has  never  procured  the  conviction  of  an  innc 
cent  person.  As  district  attorney  he  gave  sue 
satisfaction  that  he  was  elected  county  judg 
in  10,00  by  a  large  majority  for  a  term  of  si: 
years.  He  is  making  a  fine  record  in  the  posi 
tion. 

Judge  Seeger  is  a  member  of  Hudson  Rive 
Lodge,  No.  607,  Free  and  Accepted  Mason 
(  "raised"  in  1895  )  ;  also  of  Highland  Chaptei 
No.  52,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  of  Hudso' 
River  1  iommandery,  No.  3^,  Knights  Templai 
and  Mecca  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Orde 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  membe 
of  Bismarck  Lodge,  No.  420,  Independen 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows  (of  which  his  fathe 
was  a  charter  member,  besides  being 
D.D.G.M.  of  that  Odd  Fellows  district) 
and  a  member  Newburgh  Lodge,  No.  247 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks 
Among  the  other  organizations  in  which  Judg' 
Seeger  holds  membership  is  the  Republicai 
(lull  of  the  City  of  New  York,  the  Newburgl 
Mannerchor,  the  Newburgh  Turn  Verein.  tin 
Newburgh  City  Club,  the  Newburgh  Wheel 
men,  the  Newburgh  Canoe  and  Boating  Asso 
ciation,  the  Ringgold  Hose  Company,  the  Nev 
burgh  Volunteer  Firemen's  Association  anc 
Brookside  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry 
Judge  Seeger  is  one  of  the  most  genial  anc 
approachable  of  men.  He  is  affable  and  plea 
sant  to  everybody.  He  is  not  only  learned  ir 
the  law  and  successful,  but  he  is  a  man  amonf 
men,  whom   it  is  a  delight   to  know  and  on< 


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whom  his  fellow  citizens  are  likely  to  honor 
to  an  extent  still  greater  than  they  have  al- 
ready done. 

He  married,  in  Newburgh,  Orange  county, 
New  York,  in  1884,  May  E.  Riker,  of  New- 
burgh, a  former  resident  of  Chester,  where  she 
was  born.  They  have  one  son,  John  Albert, 
who  has  been  studying  law  with  his  father. 

The  original  name  of  the  Ryker  (Riker) 
family  was  Rycken.  In  the  first  crusade  in 
the  Holy  Land  Hans  Von  Rycken,  Lord  of 
the  Manor  of  Rycken  in  Saxony,  was  accre- 
dited the  honor  of  being  the  first  to  establish 
a  perfunctory  form  of  emancipation.  His 
coat-of-arms  was  a  shield,  horns,  stars  and 
roses.  As  the  family  name  was  changed  to 
De  Ryck,  the  insignia  was  changed  to  a  heap 
of  bears.  In  1329  Louis  the  Fifth,  Emperor 
of  Germany,  presented  the  family  with  a  new 
coat-of-arms,  bearing  crossed  spears  and  a 
fish.  Jacob  Simonez  de  Rycke,  grandfather  of 
Abraham  de  Rycke,  is  accredited  with  being 
the  head  of  the  family  in  America.  Passing 
on  down  to  1614,  we  find  four  brothers  of 
the  de  Ryckes  in  New  Netherlands:  Abraham, 
Geysbert,  Rynier,  and  Hendrick,  bringing  with 
them  much  wealth  and  honor.  Abraham  de 
Rycke  was  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in 
America ;  and  they  assumed  the  name  of  Riker 
and  were  the  first  owners  of  Ricker's  Island. 
His  son,  Abraham,  married  Elizabeth  Conklin  ; 
their  issue  being  John,  Sophia,  Abraham,  Mar- 
garet, Mathias,  Gerardus,  Maria,  James, 
Henry,  Peter,  Samuel,  Tunis.  Tunis  was  born 
August  10,  1770.  He  married  Ellen  Moore. 
He  was  commissioned  as  major  in  the  United 
States  militia  under  James  Madison,  and 
served  as  such  in  the  war  of  the  United  States 
and  Great  Britain  at  Mexico  in  the  years  181 2 
and  1813.  At  the  close  of  that  war  he  was 
honorably  discharged,  then  retiring  with  a  life 
pension  of  three  hundred  dollars  annually. 
The  issue  of  his  marriage  was  Abraham. 
Thomas,  Samuel,  Anthony,  Perry,  lames, 
Maria,  Jane,  Eliza,  all  of  Spencer,  New'Yorkj 
where  he  died  in  1863.  His  son,  Abraham! 
married  Ellen  Sackett  and  their  issue  was 
Jane,  Wesley,  Ellen,  Eliza,  Jackson.  Wesley 
married  Hannah  Ackly,  and  their  issue  was 
Catharine,  Robert,  Augustus,  Wheeler  and 
May  E.,  mentioned  above,  who  married  Judge 
Albert  H.  F.  Seeger. 


Allan  Ainsworth  was 
AINSWORTH  born  in  Denton,  Lan- 
cashire, England,  in  1841. 
The  Ainsworth  family  undoubtedly  takes  its 
name  from  the  chapelry  Ainsworth  (i.  e., 
Aynes  or  Haynes  enclosure)  commonly  called 
Cockey  Moor,  situated  in  the  parish  of  Mid- 
dleton,  Salford  hundred,  in  the  county  pala- 
tine of  Lancaster,  England.  So  long  ago  as 
1639  a.d.,  John  Ainsworth  was  of  that  ilk  and 
owned  lands  there,  but  "Bayne's  Directory" 
for  1825  gave  no  one  of  the  name  as  an  in- 
habitant ;  there  were  then  no  Ainsworths  or 
Ainsworth.  The  place  was  always  small,  and 
the  census  of  1881  states  its  population  as  only 
1,729  and  its  area  as  1,309  acres.  Burke's 
"General  Armory"  gives  four  coats-of-arms  as 
those  of  Lancashire  Ainsworths  that  are  prob- 
ably ancient,  two  of  these  differ  only  as  to 
their  tincture  (i.  e.,  colors).  The  description 
given  by  Burke  in  the  technical  language  of 
heraldry  is  as  follows:  1.  Gules,  three  battle 
ko  argent:  Crest — two  battle  axes  in  saltire 
proper.  Motto — Courage  Sans  Pair.  2. 
Azure,  three  spades  argent,  another  within  a 
border.  Crest — two  battle  axes  in  saltire 
proper.  3.  Azure,  on  a  bend  sable  three  cres- 
cents of  the  first.  4.  Sable,  on  a  bend  argent 
three  crescents  of  the  field.  In  view  of  the 
later  American  history  of  the  family,  these 
coats-of-arms  are  not  inappropriate;  spades 
are  emblematic  of  the  agricultural  occupation 
of  the  great  majority  of  the  individuals  repre- 
senting the  name,  the  battle  axes  symbolizing 
their  aptness  and  devotion  to  military  service. 
Every  war  here  has  seen  the  name  of  Ains- 
worth repeated  on  its  muster  rolls,  and  the 
number  who  died  in  the  French  and  Indian 
war  and  in  the  revolutionary  war  seems  out  of 
proportion  to  the  number  who  have  borne  the 
name.  The  motto,  "Fearless  Courage."  has 
evidently  been  sustained  by  the  family  in 
America. 

Allan  Ainsworth  received  a  common  school 
education  in  Denton,  and  afterward  learned 
the  manufacturing  of  hats  as  a  trade.  He  was 
a  very  young  man  when  he  came  to  this  coun- 
try and  established  himself  in  Yonkers,  later 
in  Newburgh,  and  subsequently  in  Matteawan, 
New  York,  continuing  the  hat  manufacturing 
trade.  He  married  Delia  Carey,  in  New 
York  City,  about  1870;  Delia  Carey  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  about  1850  There  were 
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Edith,  Ida,  Walter  F.  and  Harry.  They  be- 
longed to  the  Episcopal  church. 

Walter  Francis,  fifth  child  of  Allan  and 
Delia  Ainsworth,  was  born  July  31,  [878,  in 
Newburgh,  <  Irange  enmity,  New  York.  He 
went  to  public  school  and  later  to  high  school 
in  Matteawan.  After  graduating  he  entered 
De  Garmo  Institute,  and  subsequently  Silen- 
cer's Business  College,  Newburgh,  from 
which     he  duated     in      iiS'j.S-      He 

was  employed  by  the  West  Shore  Rail- 
road Company  at  Newburgh  as  a  clerk 
for  three  years:  later  he  was  transferred 
to  the  superintendent's  office,  where  he 
remained  about  one  year;  after  that  he  was 
employed  by  the  New  York.  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  Company  at  Fishkib 
where  he  remained  for  one  year.  After  that 
he  entered  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
four  years  at  Fishkill  Landing.  He  sold  out 
his  business  and  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Matteawan  Savings  Bank  as  assistant  treas- 
urer for  two  years,  when  he  came  to  New 
York  and  re-entered  in  the  coal  business  with 
Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  and  finally  entered  the 
firm  of  W.  A.  Marshell  &  Co.  as  secretary, 
and  was  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Lincoln  Coal  Company  and  the  Maple  Ridge 
Coal  Company.  Mr.  Ainsworth  is  owner  and 
operator  of  the  Belmont  Quemahoning  Coal 
Company.  He  is  founding  a  settlement  at 
Acosta,  Pennsylvania,  near  one  of  his  proper- 
ties.    Mr.  Ainsworth  lives  in  New  York  City 

He  married  Beatrice  Martin,  in  New  York 
City,  in  1892;  she  was  (he  daughter  of  Charles 
Martin  and  Minnie  Raynor.  Mr.  Martin  was 
a  wholesale  produce  merchant. 


There  has  been  much  specula- 
ODELL     tion     concerning    this     surname, 

which  first  appears  in  American 
records  as  borne  by  William  <  >dell,  who  came 
to  New  England  in  the  early  part  of  the  sev- 
enteenth century.  Some  genealogists  give  the 
name  an  English  origin.  According  to  these 
the  name  is  said  to  have  been  variously  writ- 
ten in  the  public  records  of  England  as  Wade- 
helle,  Wahulle,  de  Wahul.  Wodhull,  Wood- 
hull,  Wodell,  Odell,  Odill  and  Odle.  The 
parish  registers  of  Bedfordshire,  England, 
show  a  very  extensive  settlement  of  the  family 
in  that  county  and  the  name  appears  to  have 
undergone   many   variations   in   spelling,   such 


a,  Wodell,  Woddell,  Woodell,  Woddle,  Odil 
(  )dell  and  (  >dle.  The  seat  of  the  familie 
bearing  these  variegated  surnames  was  origir 
ally  the  ancient  castle  and  barony  of  Wahul 
also  called  Wodhull,  Woodhull,  Woodhil 
etc.  This  place  is  now  described  as  Odell  o 
the  maps  of  the  county,  this  being  a  late 
orthography.  In  the  parish  registers  of  Ther 
ford.  Northamptonshire,  and  Mollington,  Os 
fordshire,  the  common  spelling  of  the  nam 
is  Wodhull  and  Woodhull;  in  Mollingto 
Church,  however,  is  a  tomb  to  the  memory  0 
.Mr..  Elizabeth  (Merse)  Woodhull,  late  wif 
of  Richard  Woodhull,  of  Mollington.  I 
America  the  families  of  Woodhull  have  nc 
traced  any  relationship,  though  Richar 
Woodhull,  born  about  1(120,  who  is  considere 
the  progenitor  of  most  of  the  Woodhulls  i 
this  country,  was  sometimes  described  on  th 
public  records  as  Richard  <  ►dell,  and  Williai 
<  Idell,  ]r.,  of  Rye,  New  York,  signed  as  Wi 
Ham  Woodhull  in  1668. 

The  0  '  'dells  of  Ireland  are  a  we 

n  Milesian  family  of  the  race  of  Hebe: 
a  brail'  b  of  the  family  of  Ring  or  O'Villrii 
The  surname  is  derived  from  Dall  (  "dall"  i 
Gaelic  meaning  "blind"),  the  christian  nam 
of  a  military-  commander  who  is  the  hundre 
and  second  on  the  O'Villrin  or  Ring  pedigrei 
It  has  been  variously  anglicised  O'Dalh 
•  I']  >ell,  »  >dell  and  Dale.'  The  family  is  of  di; 
tinguished  ancestry,  Dall,  win.'  appears  t 
have  been  present  at  the  battle  of  Clontar 
(  1014  .\. o.l,  having  been  a  descendant  in  th 
fourteenth  generation  of  Daire  Cearb 
brother  of  Lughaidh,  son  of  <  )lioll  Flann-bea< 
king  of  Minister  for  thirty  years,  and  greal 
grandson  of  the  celebrated  Olioll  Glum,  kin 
of  both  Ministers  in  the  third  century,  frot 
whom  were  descended  all  the  Heberian  nobi' 
ity  and  gentry  of  Thomond  and  Desmond. 

(I)  William  Odell,  the  founder  and  fir; 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Odell  family  her 
dealt  with,  was  born  either  in  Britain  or  In 
land,  died  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  in  \6jt 
He  came  to  New  England  in  the  early  part  0 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  he  is  first  trace 
at  Concord,  Massachusetts,  where  his  nam 
appears  in  the  town  records  as  early  as  163c 
lie  removed  to  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  abov 
1644,  and  became  the  owner  of  a  large  estat< 
His  name  appears  there  in  the  probate  record 
with  the  comparatively  rare  prefix  of  "Mr., 


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which  in  those  early  days  was  a  distinctive 
md  honorable  title.  His  will,  recorded  at 
Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  dated  June  6,  1676, 
nentions  his  sons  William  and  John,  his 
laughter  Rebecca,  who  had  married  Thomas 
VIoorehouse,  his  daughter-in-law,  Mary 
Ddell,  and  others.  In  this  will  he  bequeathed 
ands  in  Concord  and  Fairfield  and  makes 
lis  son,  John  Odell,  and  his  son-in-law,  Sam- 
iel  Moorehouse,  his  executors.  William 
Ddell  married  before  coming  to  America,  it 
s  thought,  but  the  name  of  his  wife  has  re- 
named unknown.  There  is  no  trace  of  Airs. 
Ddell's  residence  in  Concord,  the  first  book 
)f  the  records  of  that  town  having  been  lost. 
n  the  early  records  of  Boston,  however,  may 
<ie  found  "A  Register  of  the  births  and  burials 
n  Concord  for  the  years  1639  until  the  first 
nonth  of  [644,  according  to  Or  account."  In 
his  register  are  the  following  entries : 
'James  the  sonne  of  William  Odle  was  born 
he  2  of  the  11  month  1639,  and  was  buried 
.  (  J  1  1 641 ."  "Rebecca,  the  daughter  of  Wil- 
iam  Odle  was  borne  the  17  (5)  1642."  It  is 
upposed  that  Mrs.  Odell  died  before  1044, 
he  year  of  her  husband's  removal  to  Fair- 
ield,  Connecticut,  as  the  records  of  the  town 
nake  no  mention  of  her  name,  nor  does  Mr. 
Ddell's  will,  made  in  1676,  refer  to  her.  Chil- 
lren :  William,  mentioned  below ;  James, 
>orn  in  1639,  died  in  1641  ;  John,  married 
\bigail  Walker ;  Rebecca,  married  Thomas 
VIoorehouse. 
(II)  William  (2),  eldest  son  of  William 
i  1  (  'dell,  was  born  about  1634,  died  about 
700  at  Rye.  New  York.  In  1659  he  pur- 
hased  land  in  Fairfield  from  Thomas  Moore- 
louse,  and  in  1668,  when  he  appears  to  have 
>een  residing  at  Rye,  he  signed  a  petition  as 
^William  Woodhull."  such  a  name  appearing 
m  the  record  and  considered  to  have  been 
igned  by  him.  In  1681  he  owned  about  four 
mndred  acres  in  Fairfield,  and  in  1^84  he 
:ave  a  deed  of  land  in  Rye.  New  York,  to  his 
on  Samuel.  There  is  also  a  record  of  his 
giving  a  deed  of  land  to  his  eldest  son,  John 
)dell,  in  1693.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
\lchard  Yowles,  Esq.,  of  Rye,  New  York, 
vho  was  of  Fairfield,  in  1650.  and  was  a  Free- 
nan  in  1662.  Children:  1.  John,  mentioned 
lelow.  2.  Samuel,  who  lived  at  Rye,  New 
fork,  and  in  1700,  gave  Abraham  Smith  a 
leed  of  land  which  formerly  belonged  to  his 
ather.    3.  Jonathan,  who  was  of  White  Plains 


in  1697  and  signed  the  oath  of  allegiance  to 
King  William.  4.  Sarah,  married,  in  1686, 
John  Archer,  Esq.,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Ford- 
hani.  New  York,  and  had  issue.  5.  Hackahal, 
who  is  mentioned  in  Rye  town  records  as  wit- 
nessing Robert  Bloomer's  deed.  6.  Isaac,  lived 
at  Eastchester,  New  York,  and  gave  to  Misses 
Hoit  a  deed  of  land  in  Eastchester.  7. 
Stephen,  who  is  said  to  have  removed  to 
Dutchess  county,  New  York.  8.  Michael,  who 
is  said  to  have  married  one  Bussing. 

(Ill)   John,  eldest  son  of  William   (2)   and 

(Yowles)  Odell,  was  probably  burn  at 

Fairfield,  Connecticut,  died  at  Fordham,  New 
York.  There  is  a  record  of  his  signing  as  a 
witness  in  1683,  and  in  1706  he  sold  to  George 
Kniffen,  of  Rye,  New  York,  his  interest  in 
the  undivided  lands  "below  the  marked  trees 
which  belong  to  the  eighteenth,"  being  a  thirty- 
sixth  part  of  the  land  which  belonged  to  his 
deceased  father,  William  I  >dell.  He  married 
Joanna  Turner,  who  in  1688  was  mentioned 
as  Hannah,  wife  of  John  Odle,  in  an  account 
of  the  attempt  of  Nicholas  Bayard  to  take  pos- 
session of  the  Dutch  church  of  New  York. 
Lawrence  Turner  was  the  founder  of  this 
family  in  Westchester  county ;  his  estate  was 
administered  by  his  widow  Martha  and  her 
children  in  1688.  Children:  1.  Johannes, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Michael,  of  whom  no 
trace  has  been  found  beyond  the  mention  of 
his  name  as  an  executor  of  the  will  of  Johan- 
nes Odell,  of  Fordham,  New  York,  in  which 
instrument  he  is  called  by  the  testator  "My 
brother,  Michael  Odell." 

(IY)  Joannes,  eldest  son  of  John  and 
Joanna  (Turner)  Odell,  was  born  probably  at 
Rye.  New  York,  and  died  about  1738.  He 
lived  at  Fordham  Manor,  New  York.  His 
will  in  New  York  City  dated  September  25, 
I735,  a°d  proved  July  27,  1738,  mentions  his 
"honored  father"  John  Odell,  and  appoints 
his  wife,  his  brother  Michael,  and  his  son  John 
as  executors.  He  married  Joanna,  daughter 
of  Joannes  and  Altien  (Waldron)  Vermelje 
(Vermilye)  of  Harlem.  Joannes  Yermelje 
was  in  1670  magistrate  and  in  1689  member  of 
the  committee  of  safety  and  of  Leisler's  coun- 
cil. Isaac  Vermeille,  the  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  this  country,  was  the  son  of  Jean  and 
Marie  (Roubley)  Yermeille,  who  were  among 
the  Walloon  refugees  in  London  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  sixteenth  century.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Odell:     1.  Tohn,  married  Anne, 


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daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Benson,  of 
Harlem.  2.  Isaac,  married  Lena  Devaux  and 
had  three  sons:  Isaac,  who  served  in  the  revo- 
lutionary war;  John,  Jonathan.  3.  Abraham, 
born  April  22,  1725,  died  1819;  married  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Joseph  and  Jannetje  (  Kier- 
sen)  Dyckman.  4.  Jonathan,  mentioned  be- 
low.    5.  I  lannah.    6.  Altien. 

(  V  )  Jonathan,  son  of  Joannes  and  Joanna 
(Vermilye)  Odell,  was  born  Decembei 
1730,  died  September  23,  1818,  at  Tarrytown, 
New  York,  being  buried  in  Sleep}'  Hollow 
cemetery  in  that  neighborhood,  tie  lived  at 
Tarrytown,  New  York,  and  owned  a  large 
estate  in  Westchester  county.  New  York.  He 
served  in  the  revolutionary  war  and  was  im- 
prisoned by  the  British  for  loyalty  to  the 
American  cause.  His  will  is  dated  May  29, 
[812,  and  mentions  his  sons  and  daughters. 
He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Jannetie  (Kiersen)  Dyckman.  She  was  born 
in  173(1,  died  March  20,  1783,  granddaughter 
of  Jan  Dyckman,  the  founder  of  the  family, 
who  came  from  Bentheim,  Westphalia,  and 
was  a  landholder  in  Harlem  as  early  as  [666 
Children:  1.  Jacob,  born  February  26,  1752, 
died  October  15,  1798;  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Jasper  and  Auly  Stymus,  of 
Greenburg,  New  York.  2.  Lieutenant  John. 
bom  (  Vtobcr  25,  [756,  died  <  tctober  26,  1835  ; 
was  an  officer  in  Colonel  Morris  Graham's 
regiment  and  mounted  guide  to  the  American 
army  during  the  war  of  the  revolution;  mar- 
ried Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  Mac- 
Chain,  of  Cortlandt,  Westchester  county, 
New  York.  3.  Abraham,  born  January  4. 
1760,  died  February  26,  1820;  married  Anne, 
daughter  of  Cornelis  and  Rachel  (Horton) 
Mandeville,  of  Cortlandt  Manor,  New  York; 
he  served  in  the  American  army  in  Colonel 
Van  Bergen's  regiment  during  the  war  of  the 
revolution.     4.  William,  mentioned  below 

(  VI  )  William,  youngest  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Margaret  (Dyckman)  Odell,  was  born  in  New 
December  iS,  1762,  died  at  Kendall, 
(  )rleans  county,  New  York,  February  14, 
1856.  He  served  in  Colonel  Van  Bergen's 
regiment  during  the  war  of  the  revolution  and 
later  held  a  colonel's  commission  in  a  West- 
chester county  regiment.  In  1812  he  was 
named  in  his  father's  will  with  a  bequest  of 
an  estate  called  the  Homestead.  He  was  for 
some  years  proprietor  of  the  Bull's  Head 
Tavern.        Tn     1835    he    settled    at    Kendall. 


•  Irleans  county,  New  York,  buying  a  tract  of 
land  for  the  purpose  of  improving  it.  He 
married  Johanna,  born  December  30,  1769, 
daughter  of  Daniel  S.  and  Rebecca  (Brown) 
Willsea,  of  Greenburg.  Children:  1.  Isaac, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Abram,  who  settled  in 
Little  Britain,  near  New  Windsor,  Orange 
county,  New  York. 

(VII)  Isaac,  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Johanna  (Willsea)  Odell,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  about  1799,  died  at  Newburgh, 
Orange  county,  New  York.  He  went  with  his 
father  to  (irleans  county,  New  York 
and  afterwards  settled  in  Little  Britain,  near 
New  Windsor,  Orange  county,  New  York, 
where  they  settled  on  the  De  Witt  Clinton 
farm.  He  married  Mary  Ann  Barker,  born 
in  Westchester  county,  New  York,  died  in 
New  York  City  at  the  age  of  eighty-one. 
Children:  1.  Benjamin,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Caleb,  born  at  New  Windsor,  Orange  county, 
New  York,  June  28,  1827,  died  on  Thanks- 
giving Day.  1881. 

1  \  III)  Benjamin,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and 
Mary  Ann  (  Barker)  Odell,  was  born  at  New 
Windsor,  Orange  county,  New  York,  Septem- 
ber to,  1825,  in  the  same  house  in  which 
Governor  Clinton  was  born.  He  attendee 
school  as  a  boy,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteer 
was  bound  out  to  Abram  Weller  of  th< 
town  of  Montgomery,  as  a  farm  hand.  He 
remained  with  Mr.  Weller  three  years,  and  ir 
the  meantime  attended  school  part  of  the  tim< 
at  the  Clineman  school  house,  near  Walden 
Mr  <  >dell  went  to  Newburgh  in  1843  and  en- 
tered the  employ  of  Benjamin  W.  Wan  Nort 
with  whom  he  remained  four  years,  when  h< 
began  business  for  himself.  In  1863  he  bougl 
from  J.  R.  Dickson  the  Muchattoes  Lake  ic( 
property.  In  1886  he  organized  the  Muchal 
toes  Lake  Ice  Company,  of  which  he  is  stil 
president.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  formet 
village  of  Newburgh  and  has  been  an  alder- 
man in  the  third  ward  of  Newburgh  and  : 
supervisor  of  New  Windsor.  He  was  sherifl 
of  Orange  county  in  1880-83,  and  has  servec 
six  terms  of  two  years  each  as  mayor  of  New- 
burgh. He  has  alwavs  faithfully  fulfillec 
every  trust  reposed  in  him.  He  is  a  stauncl 
Republican,  and  has  been  ever  since  the  open 
ing  of  the  rebellion  in  1861.  He  has  alway: 
been  a  farseeing  and  capable  politician.  Ai 
regards  religion  Mr.  Odell  belongs  to  thi 
American   Reformed  church,  of  which  he  i 


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an  elder.  He  married,  in  1850,  Ophelia, 
{daughter  of  Hiram  Bookstaver,  of  Newburgh, 
New  York.  Children:  1.  Benjamin  B.,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Hiram  B.,  mentioned  below. 
3.  George  C.  D.    4.  Clara.    5.  Ophelia. 

(IX)  Benjamin  B.,  eldest  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Ophelia  (Bookstaver)  Odell,  was  born  at 
Newburgh,  Orange  county,  New  York,  Janu- 
ary 14,  1854.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Newburgh  and  at  Bethany  College, 
West  Virginia.  From  1873  to  1875  he  was  a 
student  at  Columbia  College.  He  engaged  for 
a  number  of  years  in  banking,  electric  light- 
ing and  other  commercial  enterprises  in  New- 
burgh with  his  father.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Republican  State  committee  from  1884  to 
1900,  and  chairman  of  the  Republican  state 
executive  committee  from  1898  to  1900.  He 
was  a  member  of  congress  from  the  seven- 
teenth district  of  New  York  from  1895  to 
1899,  but  declined  renomination.  He  earned 
considerable  distinction  as  governor  of  New 
York  from  1901  to  1905.  He  married  (first) 
in  1877,  Estelle  Crist,  who  died  in  1888;  (sec- 
ond) in  1891,  Mrs.  Linda  (Crist)  Traphagen, 
widow  of  Mr.  Traphagen,  and  sister  of  the 
first  Mrs.  Odell. 

(IX)  Hiram  B.,  second  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Ophelia  (Bookstaver)  Odell,  was  born  in 
Newburgh,  <  (range  county,  New  York,  Au- 
gust 21,  1856.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city.  Soon  after  leaving 
school  in  1871  he  began  work  with  his  father 
in  the  ice  business,  the  elder  Odell  being  presi- 
dent of  the  Muchattoes  Lake  Ice  Company. 
He  has  remained  in  that  business  and  has  long 
been  an  officer  in  the  company.  In  1880  he 
was  appointed  under  sheriff  in  charge  of  the 
Goshen  court  house  and  jail  by  his  father,  who 
had  been  elected  sheriff  of  Orange  county  the 
previous  November.  He  served  in  that  office 
during  a  term  of  three  years  and  his  work 
gave  general  satisfaction.  On  March  7,  1893, 
Mr.  Odell  was  elected  alderman  in  the  New- 
burgh common  council  to  represent  the  third 
ward.  He  served  in  that  office  one  term  of 
two  years  and  declined  re-election.  The  next 
office  held  by  Mr.  Odell  was  that  of  postmas- 
ter of  Newburgh,  in  which  he  served  his  third 
term  of  four  years.  He  was  first  appointed 
in  March,  1900,  by  President  McKinley  and 
was  reappointed  by  President  Roosevelt  in 
1904  and  again  in  1908.  Mr.  Odell,  it  is  said 
locally,    has    made    an    admirable    postmas- 


ter and  there  have  been  many  improve- 
ments made  in  the  postal  system  of  the 
city  since  he  began  to  hold  the  position. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  fire 
department  for  seven  years,  and  was  secre- 
tary of  the  Ringgold  Hose  Company  sev- 
eral years.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  Com- 
pany E,  Seventeenth  Battalion  (now  the 
Tenth  Separate  Company)  in  1878.  He  was 
appointed  first  corporal  by  Captain  Joseph  M. 
Dickey,  and  took  rank  as  second  lieutenant, 
February  8,  1884,  and  as  first  lieutenant,  May 
22,  1885.  He  served  seven  years  in  the  Na- 
tional Guard,  and  left  the  company  August  10, 
1886.  He  married,  in  April,  1886,  Edith, 
daughter  of  James  Ashley  and  Catherine 
Booth,  of  Wilbur,  a  suburb  of  Kingston, 
Ulster  county,  New  York.  Children :  Mil- 
dred, Edith,  Hiram  B.,   Jr. 


(VIII)   Caleb  Odell,  second  son 
ODELL     of  Isaac  (q.  v.)   and  Mary  Ann 

(Barker)  Odell,  was  born  at  New 
Windsor,  Orange  county,  New  York,  June  28, 
1827,  and  died  on  Thanksgiving  Day  in  1881, 
at  Newburg,  Orange  county,  New  York.  He 
attended  the  district  schools  in  the  vicinity  of 
New  Windsor  and  later  in  life  settled  in  New 
burg,  where,  with  his  brother,  Benjamin  B. 
Odell,  he  conducted  a  restaurant.  Later  he 
was  proprietor  of  the  old  Van  Ort  House, 
one  of  the  leading  hotels  of  that  day.  He 
managed  the  Van  Ort  Hotel  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  when  it  was  torn  down  he  engaged 
again  in  the  restaurant  business,  though  he  did 
not  continue  very  long  in  this  second  venture. 
He  was  a  very  genial  man  and  his  jovial 
character  and  conversation  had  much  to  do 
with  his  success  in  his  catering  business.  Gay 
as  he  was  he  retained  a  firm  belief  in  the  value 
of  practical  religion  and  was  a  regular  at- 
tendant with  his  family  at  the  Old  Dutch 
church.  He  married,  June  25,  1849,  Jane, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Dunning)  Cas- 
telline  (see  Castelline  VI).  Children:  Mary 
Ann.  who  married  William  Ernest ;  George 
W. ;  Ophelia,  who  died  in  infancy  ;  Caleb  ;  Wil- 
liam ;  Adelaide,  who  married  William  Corn- 
wall;  Katherine,  who  married  H.  E.  Limmer; 
Laura  V.,  mentioned  below ;  Harriet  E.,  who 
married  (first)  Clarence  Whitehill,  and  (sec- 
ond) Dr.  J.  L.  Rathburn ;  and  Cora,  who  died 
in  infancy. 


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i  1a  i  Laura  V.,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Jane 
(LastellineJ  Odell,  was  burn  in  Newburg, 
<  (range  county,  New  York.  She  married,  No- 
vember 23,  1898,  Samuel  L.  Carlisle,  who  was 
born  at  Newburg,  Orange  county,  New  York, 
June  30,  1832,  and  died  at  Newburgh,  Novem- 
ber i),  [911.  Beginning  life  in  Newburgh  in 
obscurity,  he  died  one  of  the  most  honored 
citizens  of  the  district,  having  been  a  represen- 
tative in  the  stale  legislature,  where  lie  served 
on  important  committees  during  the  term  of 
1W4-5.  Air.  Carlisle's  early  education  was 
seemed  in  public  schools  and  while  attending 
school  he  was  employed  as  a  newsboy  by 
Stephen  Hoyt.  After  leaving  school  he  started 
a  brush  factory  ami  later  went  to  New  York 
City  to  learn  the  dry  goods  business,  but  left 
it  to  enter  the  service  of  the  Singer  Sewing 
Machine  Company,  at  their  works  in  Brook 
lyn,  Xew  York.  lie  entered  the  establish- 
ment a:-  an  office  boy,  worked  through  the  sev- 
eral grades  to  that  of  buyer,  and  then  became 
a  stockholder  and  director,  holding  a  position 
on  the  board  of  directors  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 

After  becoming  associated  with  the  Singer 
(  ompany  in  an  official  capacity  Mr.  Carlisle 
organized  in  Brooklyn  what  was  fur  years 
Known  the  country  round  as  the  "Carlisle  Bat- 
tery," an  organization  used  exclusively  for 
political  purposes.  After  Mr.  Carlisle  went  to 
Newburg  tn  live  a  retired  life  in  1881,  the 
■.  was  reorganized  and  is  now  known  as 
the  "Francis  William  Battery."  In  [884  when 
the  Blaine  and  Logan  campaign  was  on  Mr. 
Carlisle  entered  tlie  political  held  locally,  and 
one  of  the  largest  demonstrations  ever  given 
in  the  district  was  brought  about  at  his  sug- 
gestion and  with  his  assistance.  This  was  the 
occasion  of  visits  from  chilis  representing  all 
river  cities  and  towns.  The  closing  years  oi 
Mr.  Carlisle's  life  were  somewhat  over- 
shadowed by  illness.  He  was  a  member  of 
Newburg  Lodge,  No.  308,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  of  Hudson  River  Commandery, 
No.  35,  Knights  Templar.  Mr.  Samuel  Lud- 
low Carlisle,  by  hi-,  first  marriage,  had  one  son, 
William,  who  died  in  December,  1010.  Wil- 
liam married  Anna  P.  Daly,  of  Brooklyn,  and 
had  three  children:  Avrill,  who  has  been  pri- 
on of  Mr.  William  Randolph 
.  the  newspaper  proprietor;  Samuel  Car- 
lisle, who  i-  with  the  Remington  Typewriter 
Company,  and  Emilie,  who  married  Martin  C. 


Stewart,     professor    of     Cerman     at     Uni 
College. 

(  The  Castelline  Line. ) 
The  name  Castelline  is  manifestly  Latin 
origin,  and  particularly  French.  In  Ameri 
it  has  appeared  in  various  forms,  the  chief  1 
ing  the  ordinary  and  probably  correct  form 
Castelline,  and  the  still  prevalent  form  of  C; 
terline,  which  is  simply  an  anglicised  form 
the  other.  The  tradition  is  that  the  fam 
arrived  on  the  coast  of  New  Jersey  fn 
France  at  an  early  period  in  the  seventeer 
century.  The  name  Castelline  has  referer 
to  some  castle  or  stronghold  apparently  cc 
nected  wdth  the  original  family.  This  was 
very  common  form  for  French  or  Norm 
names  to  assume,  surnames  in  France  bei 
usually  taken  from  the  appellation  of  soi 
town  or  territory  or  district  or  feature  of  t 
landscape,  more  particularly  in  the  case 
families  having  pretensions  to  wealth  a 
social  position. 

( I )  Francis  Castelline  or  Casterline,  1 
founder  of  the  family  in  America  bearing  1 
name  and  its  variations,  was  born  in  Fran 
probably  about  1672,  and  died  at  Rockaw; 
Morris    county,    New    Jersey,    December 

1  71 18,  aged  ninety-six.  According  to  the  tra 
tion  handed  down  in  the  family  he  arm 
in  New  Jersey  from  France  and  settled  n< 
Union  or  Franklin  in  that  state,  about  1 
year  [690.  His  son  Francis  is  said  to  h« 
been  a  mere  babe  at  the  time  and  had  to 
carried  in  his  mother's  arms.  There  is 
record  as  to  the  name  of  the  mother.  Fran 
was  probably  a  farmer  and  he  seems  to  hi 
owned  some  land  in  the  place  where  he  s 
tied,  near  Rockaway,  Morris  county,  N 
Jersey. 

(II)  Francis  (2),  son  of  Francis  (1)  C 
telline,    was    probably   born    in    France    abi 

1  and  died  in  1796  at  Rockaway.  Mor 
county,  New  Jersey,  at  the  age  of  one  hundi 
and  six.  He  married  three  times  and  1 
twenty-six  children.  The  records  as  far 
known  give:  Abraham.  Amariah,  Jac 
Step!. en,  Benjamin,  Samuel,  Franci  .  Phe 
fames,  and  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

(  III  )  Joseph,  son  of  Francis  (2)  Castelli 
was  born  at  Rockaway,  Morris  county,  N 
Jersey,  June  10.  1736,  and  died  at  the  sa 
place  April  18,  1832.  He  lived  at  Rockaw 
and  was  a  farmer.  He  married  (first)  M 
16,    1772,    Susannah   Lyon,  by  whom  he  r 


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eleven  children;  and  he  married  (second) 
Penniah  Searing,  March  24,  1799 ;  by  this 
marriage  he  had  ten  children.  Children:  1. 
Daniel,  mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah.  3.  Susan, 
who  married  Stephen  Freeman.  4.  Hannah, 
who  married  (first)  one  Tompkins,  (second) 
one  Harris.  5.  Phebe.  6.  Huldah.  7.  Simeon, 
who  died  March  14,  1888,  married  (first)  Re- 
becca Duly,  of  Minkey,  (second)  Eveline 
Atno  of  Succasunna,  and  (third)  Susan 
Sharf  of  Madison,  born  September  25,  1799, 
died  April  1,  1879.  8.  Jane,  died  July  7,  1875 ; 
married  !  first )  Hiram  Henry  Baxter,  August 
2,  1822,  and  had  two  children,  one  of  whom 
died  young,  and  the  other,  William  Henry, 
born  June  10,  1825,  died  in  California;  mar 
ried  (second)  a  Mr.  Harrison  of  Caldwell. 
Penniah  Searing,  the  second  wife  of  Joseph 
Castelline,  was  the  daughter  of  William  and 
Penniah  (  Burnett )  Searing,  the  seventh 
daughter  of  a  seventh  daughter,  and  was  pos- 
sessed, according  to  the  belief  of  some,  of 
great  healing  powers  by  the  "laying  on  of 
i  hands." 

((IV)  Daniel,  son  of  Joseph  and  Susannah 
(Lyon)  Castelline,  was  born  at  Rockaway. 
Morris  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1774.  He  mar- 
ried a  lady  whose  first  name  was  Elizabeth, 
but  whose  maiden  surname  remains  unknown. 
They  had  several  children,  but  the  records 
contain  the  name  of  only  one  of  them.    There 

(is  no  means  of  surmising  the  probable  date 
Df  the  death  of  Daniel  or  his  wife,  or  of  any 
special  incidents  in  their  lives. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
Castelline.  was  born  in  Rockaway,  Morris 
:ounty,  New  Jersey,  May  26,  1798,  and  died 
it  Dover,  November  26,  1852,  being  buried 
in  Berkshire  Valley.  He  settled  fn  Orange 
xmnty,  New  York,  and  married  Ann  Dunning. 
Dne  of  their  children  was  Jane,  mentioned 
Delow. 

(VI)  Jane,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann 
(Dunning)  Castelline,  was  born  November 
[9,  1827,  and  died  February  11,  1903,  at  New- 
)urg.  Orange  county,  New  York.  She  mar- 
ked. Tune  25,  1840,  Caleb  Odell.  son  of  Isaac 
ind  Marv  Ann  (Barker)  Odell,  (see  Odel! 
VIII). 


It  is  claimed  that  the  surname 

HOPPER     Hopper  is  of  French  origin  and 

was   originally   spelled   Hoppe. 

There  are  in  America  three  distinct  Hopper 


families.  One  is  of  Irish  descent,  another 
came  from  the  county  of  Durham,  England, 
and  the  third,  by  far  the  most  numerous,  is 
of  Dutch  ancestry.  The  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  Holland  Hoppers  was  Andries  Hopper, 
and  the  New  Jersey  and  New  York  Hoppers 
are  descended  from  him.  Members  of  the 
family  have  represented  their  districts  in  the 
legislature,  others  have  worn  the  judicial 
ermine  with  dignity  and  respectability,  still 
others  have  held  from  time  to  time  county  and 
township  offices,  and  some  have  become  fam- 
ous as  physicians,  clergymen,  lawyers,  mayors 
of  cities,  publicists,  mechanics,  sailors,  soldiers 
and  agriculturists. 

( I )  Andries  Hopper  came  from  Amster- 
dam, Holland,  in  1652,  accompanied  by  his 
wife  and  two  or  three  children,  and  settled  in 
New  Amsterdam  (now  New  York  City).  In 
1657  he.  was  granted  the  privileges  of  a  small 
burgher.  He  acquired  considerable  property 
but  did  not  live  long  to  enjoy  it,  as  he  died  in 
1659.  He  had  entered  into  an  agreement  with 
one  Jacob  Stol  to  purchase  the  Bronx  lands. 
but  owing  to  the  death  of  both,  the  trans- 
action was  not  completed.  The  maiden  name 
of  his  wife  was  Giertie  Hendricks,  and  she 
bore  him  several  children.  Those  born  in 
America  were:  1.  William.  1654;  2.  Hendrick, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Matthew  Adolphus. 
(N.  B.  The  Hoppers  of  Saddle  River,  Ridge- 
wood  and  Midland  townships,  Bergen  countv. 
are  all  descended  from  these  brothers.)  In 
1660  Andries  Hopper's  widow  married  (sec- 
ond) Dirck  Gerritsen  Van  Tricht,  thereby 
securing  to  each  of  her  three  children  the  sum 
of  two  hundred  guilders. 

(II)  Hendrick,  second  son  of  Andries  and 
Giertie  (Hendricks)  Hopper,  was  born  in  New 
Amsterdam,  New  Netherland,  in  1656,  re- 
moved to  Bergen,  East  Jersey,  with  his 
parents  in  1680,  and  was  married,  March  14, 
1680,  in  the  Dutch  church  in  New  Nether- 
lands, to  Maria  Johns  Van  Barkum  (or 
Maria  Jans,  as  the  name  is  written  in  the  mar- 
riage record).  They  removed  to  Hackensack, 
North  Bergen,  in  1687.  Children:  1.  Andrew, 
born  168 1  ;  married,  July,  1707,  Abigail  Ack- 
erman  and  had  three  daughters.  2.  Johannes, 
born  1682;  married,  July,  1707,  Rachel  Ter- 
hune.  3.  William,  born  1684.  4.  Catherine, 
1685.  5.  Garret,  mentioned  below.  6.  Ger- 
trude, 1699.     7.  Lea. 

(III)  Garret,  fourth  son  of  Hendrick  and 


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Maria  (Jans  Van  Barkum)  Hopper,  was  bap- 
tized December  25,  1696,  in  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey,  and  was  an  elder  of  the  church  there 
in  1748  and  1758.  He  married  (first)  about 
1725,  Catherine  Kejoyne,  who  left  one  son, 
Jacob  <  i.,  mentioned  below.  He  married 
(second)  in  Hackensack,  October  31,  1741, 
Hendrickjen  Terhuen,  both  described  as  resi- 
dents of  Paramus.  A  careful  search  of  the 
church  records  of  New  York,  Hackensack, 
Schraalenburg  and  Tappan,  discovers  record 
of  only  two  children  of  this  marriage,  namely . 
Andries,  baptized  November  19,  1742,  and 
Lidea,  August  5,  1744,  at  Hackensack.  There 
were  undoubtedly  several  others,  not  recorded 
in  any  of  the  records  just  mentioned. 

(IV)  Jacob  Garretson,  only  son  of  Garret 
and  Catherine  (Kejoyne)  Hopper,  was  born 
in  1727,  on  his  father's  farm  near  Saddle 
River,  and  died  in  1815.  He  married,  at 
Hackensack,  September  22,  1750,  Cornelia 
Ackerman.  The  following  children  are  men- 
tioned in  his  will:  Catrina,  Cornelius,  Garret, 
Elizabeth,  Henry  and  John  J.  Four  of  these 
are  recorded  as  baptized  in  Hackensack.  It 
is  presumable  that  his  eldest  son,  Jacob,  left 
home  in  early  life  and  so  was  not  named  in 
the  will. 

(V)  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob  Garretson  Hopper, 
born  about  1768,  resided  in  New  York  City, 
where  his  children  were  born.  He  married, 
in  1795,  Lydia  Manwaring,  born  March  31, 
1768,  daughter  of  John  and  Lydia  (Plumb) 
Manwaring,  of  New  London,  Connecticut. 
Their  children,  born  in  New  York,  were:  Ja- 
cob Mulford,  March  7,  1797;  James  Manwar- 
ing, mentioned  below ;  Lydia  Ann,  June  4, 
1804;  Daniel  Manwaring,  March  10,  1807. 
Lydia  Plumb  was  born  June  10,  1732,  and  was 
married  at  New  London,  February  4,  1762, 
to  John  Manwaring.  She  was  descended  from 
Tohn  Plumb,  of  county  Essex,  England  (see 
Plumb  VIII). 

(VI)  James  Manwaring,  second  son  of 
Jacob  and  Lydia  (  Manwaring)  Hopper,  was 
born  March  26,  1798,  in  New  York,  where 
he  resided.  He  superintended  the  loading  and 
unloading  of  ships  along  the  North  river  docks 
in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  and  lived  to  see  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party,  which 
he  supported  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
married,  September  5,  1820,  Mary  Faulkner, 
a    native   of    New    York    City,    and    they   had 


children :    Jacob    Manwaring,    born    July 
1822,  died   May   17,   1890;  George  Faulki 
April  26,   1824;  Mary  Faulkner,  January 
1826;    Eliza    Parker,    May    17,    1828;    Jai 
Alexander,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  James  Alexander,  third  son  of  Jai 
M.  and  Mary  (Faulkner)  Hopper,  was  b 
July  17,  1831,  in  New  York  City,  and  c 
December  11,  1900,  in  San  Francisco,  C 
fornia.  He  became  a  brass  turner,  locksn 
and  gunsmith,  and  was  highly  skilled  a 
mechanic.  In  1855-56  he  was  engaged  on 
famous  "Hobb's  Lock,"  which  was  sent 
London  in  1856  and  successfully  competec 
the  great  World's  Fair.  His  employers  w 
Day  &  Newell,  who  finally  secured  a  nun 
of  contracts.  Following  this  Mr.  Hopper 
his  family  sailed  from  Boston,  Massachus< 
in  1859,  to  Honolulu,  via  Cape  Horn, 
voyage  taking  one  hundred  and  fourteen  d; 
where  he  established  a  brass  and  macl 
foundry  and  began  manufacturing  wha 
guns  and  general  ship  work.  After  the 
of  the  Arctic  licet  he  turned  his  attentior 
the  production  of  sugar  and  rice  milling 
chinery  and  was  very  successful  in  that  lini 
industry.  Me  invested  in  rice  fields  and  p 
tations,  and  by  his  thrift  and  energy  built 
a  successful  business  as  a  rice  merchant, 
political  principles  he  was  a  Republican. 
married,  (  >ctober  4,  1853,  in  New  York  C 
Ellen  Lewers,  born  April  12,  1832,  in  > 
York,  died  August  5,  1910,  in  San  Franci 
Children:  I.  William  Lewers,  mentioned 
low.  2.  Mary  Jane,  born  August  9,  1859,  n 
ried  Elisha  Wells  Peterson  and  had  childi 
Margaret  Lewers,  James  Hopper,  Dorc 
Faulkner,  Ernest  Wells  and  Lewers  CI; 
3.  Margaret  Lewers,  born  December  19,  ii 
in  Honolulu,  resides  in  Honolulu;  unmarr 
4  Ellen  Reaney.  born  February  3,  1873 
Honolulu  ;  married  Willard  Elias  Brown 
had  children :  Willard  Everett  and  Winii 
Lewers. 

(VIII)  William  Lewers,  eldest  child 
James  A.  and  Ellen  (Lewers)  Hopper,  j 
born  February  20,  1856,  at  his  parents'  r 
dence  on  Elizabeth  street,  New  York  C 
and  was  a  small  child  when  his  parents  loc£ 
in  Honolulu.  There  he  continued  under 
instruction  of  public  tutors  until  1869,  w 
he  entered  in  the  Oahu  College  at  Honol 
and  remained  until  1871.  Following  this 
was    a    student    in    grammar    school    num 


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ithirty-five  of  New  York  City,  and  passed  a 
Isuccessful  examination  in  1872  for  entry  in 
(the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York.  He 
then  pursued  a  course  in  Bryant,  Stratton  & 
jClark's  Business  College,  of  Brooklyn,  grad- 
uating April  18,  1873,  receiving  a  diploma  as 
an  accountant.  Upon  leaving  school  he  went 
to  Honolulu  and  was  employed  in  his  father's 
business  as  a  clerk  of  the  machine  shop  and 
foundry.  He  was  admitted  into  partnership 
with  his  father  in  the  rice  business,  and  con- 
tinued actively  engaged  in  this  business  until 
1 1907,  when  it  was  discontinued.  He  is  now 
president  of  the  James  Alexander  Hopper  Es- 
[tate,  Limited,  and  is  chiefly  engaged  in  the 
[care  of  his  properties.  Politically,  he  has  al- 
ways been  a  Republican,  but  has  never  sought 
any  connection  with  public  affairs.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Hawaiian  Sugar  Planters'  As- 
sociation. 

!  He  married,  September  14,  1882,  in  Os- 
borne, Osborne  county,  Kansas,  May  Temple- 
ton,  born  September  16,  1862,  in  West  Middle- 
[ton,  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania.  Chil- 
dren:  1.  Elizabeth  Templeton,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1883,  graduated  at  Washington  ( D. 
C. )  Seminary  in  May,  1904.  2.  Katherine 
Matthews,  October  6,  1886,  graduated  at  <  »ahu 
[College,  Honolulu  ;  became  the  wife  of  Chester 
Gilbert  Livingston  and  is  the  mother  of  one 
child,  William  Hopper.  3.  Mary  Ellen,  April 
24,  1888,  died  two  weeks  old.  4  Alice  Lewers, 
June  20,   1890. 

(The  Plumb  Line.) 
1  The  origin  of  the  surname  Plumb  (Plume, 
'Plumbe  and  its  other  variations)  is  unknown, 
put  it  was  in  use  in  England  among  the  earliest 
(family  names.  The  American  family  of  Plumb 
ris  descended  from  the  English  family  of 
(county  Essex.  There  are  numerous  coats-of- 
jarms  of  this  family,  but  that  to  which  the 
lEssex  branch  has  claim  is  described :  Ermine 
>a  bend  vaire  or  and  gules  cottised  vert.  Crest: 
[Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or  a  plume  of  ostrich 
feathers  argent.  The  name  of  Robertus 
Plunime  appears  in  the  Great  Roll  of  Nor- 
mandy, in  A.  D.  1 180;  also  Robert  Plome 
John  Plume  was  in  Hertfordshire  in  1240, 
and  in  1274  the  surname  is  found  in  Somerset- 
1  shire,  Cambridge  and  Norfolk.  One  branch 
of  the  Connecticut  Plumbs  traces  its  ancestry 
'direct  to  John  Plumb,  or  Plume,  of  Toppes- 
field,  county  Essex,  England,  born  about  1505  ; 


of  this  line,  John  Plumb,  of  Wethersfield, 
was  the  immigrant  and  progenitor  of  a  widely 
dispersed  line. 

(I)  John  Plumb,  of  Terling,  county  Essex, 
was  born  about  15 10,  and  was  doubtless  closely 
related  to  the  other  John.    He  married  Johana 

,  and  he  was  buried  January  25,  1548-49. 

Children:  Elizabeth;  Jane,  baptized  February 
23,  1538-39;  Margaret,  baptized  May  18,  1540; 
Philip,  May  4,  1542;  Johana,  May  22,  1543; 
Thomasin,  April\i.  1545;  George,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  George,  son  of  John  Plumb,  was  bap- 
tized at  Terling,  April  2^,  1547;  was  buried 
there  October  11,  1586,  aged  thirty-nine  years, 
five  months  and  eighteen  days.  The  names  of 
his  children  are  not  known,  but  there  is  good 
reason  to  believe  that  he  and  his  sons  lived  at 
Inworth,  the  register  of  which  is  lost. 

(IV)  George  Plumb  (or  Plume),  grandson, 
it  appears  to  be  proved,  of  George  Plumb, 
was  born  about  1607.  His  will,  dated  July 
25,  1667,  bequeathing  to  wife  Grace  and  sons 
John  and  Timothy,  was  proved  July  18,  1670, 
and  shows  that  he  was  father  of  Timothy,  of 
Hartford  and  Wethersfield,  and  of  John,  men- 
tioned below.  He  had  a  second  wife  Sarah, 
who  proved  the  will.  George  was  buried  in 
June,  1670,  at  Inworth,  Essex,  England, 
where  he  lived. 

(V)  John  (2),  son  of  George  Plumb,  was 
born  in  Essex,  England,  in  1634,  and  died 
about  1696.  He  deposed  at  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, July  11,  1666,  that  he  was  about 
thirty-two  years  old.  He  lived  many  years 
at  Hartford,  but  moved  to  New  London, 
Connecticut ;  was  constable  there  in  1680  and 
also  inn-holder  there.  His  wife  joined  the 
church  in  1691.  He  was  a  shipowner  and 
master  and  owned  the  ketch  "Hartford."  His 
wife  was  fined  for  selling  liquor  to  the 
Indians.  He  was  a  bearer  of  dispatches  from 
New  London  to  the  governor  at  Hartford, 
in  January,  1675-76,  in  King  Philip's  war,  and 
was  afterward  granted  land  for  service  in  this 
war.  He  was  given  power  of  attorney,  when 
he  was  of  Hartford,  to  collect  debts  at  Charles- 
town,  Massachusetts,  for  creditors  in  England, 
and  was  named  a  son  of  George  Plumb,  of 
Inworth,  Essex.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Green.  Children :  John,  mentioned  below ; 
Samuel,  born  about  1670;  Joseph,  about  1671 ; 
Green,  about  1673;  Mercy,  1677;  George, 
1679;  Sarah,   1682. 


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(VI)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Green)  Plumb,  was  born  about 
[666,  and  resided  in  New  London,  where  he 
died  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1732,  his 
will  being  proved  December  4,  of  that  year. 
With  his  wife  he  joined  the  New  London 
church  in  1693,  was  judge  of  the  county 
court  in  1710-12,  and  had  long  been  probate 
judge  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  married, 
December  13,  1689,  Elizabeth  Hempstead, 
who  died  in  September,  1733.  Children:  Eliza- 
beth, burn  February  27,  1691  ;  John,  Novembei 
21,  1692;  Abigail,  January  1.  1695;  Joshua, 
August  3,  1697;  Sarah,  Decembei  22,  [699; 
Peter,  mentioned  below;  Lydia,  April  24, 
1703;  Hannah,  July  10,  1705;  Daniel,  June 
12,  [708;  Patience,  March  4.  1710;  Llisha, 
March   10,   171 2. 

(VII)  J'eter,  third  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Elizabeth  (Hempstead)  Plumb,  was  born  De- 
cember 26,  1701,  in  New  London,  and  there 
resided,  where  the  inventory  of  bis  estate  was 
made,  February  21,  1749.  In  1732  he  was 
associated  with  others  in  forming  a  stock  com- 
pany to  engage  in  trade  by  sea.  He  married, 
about  1729,  Hannah  Morgan,  born  December 
17,  1706,  daughter  of  Captain  John  (2)  and 
Ruth  ( Shapley )  Morgan,  of  New  London 
(see  Morgan  IV).  Children:  Lucretia ;  Ly- 
dia, mentioned  below;  Peter,  born  about  1733- 
34;  (been,  about  1735-36. 

(VIII)  Lydia,  second  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Hannah  (Morgan)  Plumb,  became  the 
wife  of  John  Manwaring.  Their  daughter, 
Lydia,  married  [acob  Hopper  (see  Hopper 
V). 

(The  Morgan  Line.) 
(  J  )  James  Morgan,  immigrant  ancestor. 
was  born  in  Wales,  probably  at  Llandaif, 
Glamorgan  county,  but  the  family  appears  to 
have  removed  to  Bristol,  England,  before 
1030.  The  name  of  his  father  is  unknown, 
but  there  is  some  traditionary  evidence  that  it 
was  William.  In  March,  1636,  he  and  two 
younger  brothers,  John  and  Mdes,  sailed  from 
Bristol  and  arrived  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
in  April.  John  Morgan,  who  appears  to  have 
been  a  High  churchman,  soon  left  Boston  for 
the  more  congenial  society  of  Virginia.  Miles 
Morgan  settled  in  Springfield.  James  Mor- 
gan settled  at  Roxbury  before  1640  and  lived 
there  for  ten  years  or  more.  He  was  admitted 
a   freeman  May   10,   1643.     Early  in   1650  he 


was  granted  land  at  Pequot,  later  called  New 
London,  Connecticut,  and  soon  occupied  by 
him  as  a  homestead,  on  the  path  to  New  street 
(now  Ashcraft  street),  near  the  present  third 
burial  ground  in  the  western  suburbs  of  the 
present  city.  He  continued  to  occupy  this 
homestead  on  the  path  to  New  street,  or  Cape 
Ann  Lane  (as  it  was  called,  in  honor  of  the 
Cape  Ann  Company,  who  chiefly  settled  there) 
until  about  March,  1657.  He  sold  his  home- 
stead, however,  in  December,  1656,  and  re- 
moved with  others  across  the  river  to  sites 
granted  them  in  the  present  town  of  Groton. 
That  town  and  Ledyard,  set  off  in  1836,  have 
been  the  places  of  residence  of  his  descendants 
to  the  present  time.  He  was  a  large  owner 
and  dealer  in  land  and  distinguished  in  public 
enterprises;  he  was  often  employed  by  the 
public  in  land  surveys,  establishing  highways, 
determining  boundaries,  adjusting  civil  diffi- 
culties as  a  magistrate,  and  ecclesiastical  diffi- 
culties as  a  good  neighbor  and  Christian.  He 
was  one  of  the  townsmen,  or  selectmen,  of 
New  London,  and  one  of  the  first  deputies  to 
the  general  court  at  Hartford  (  May,  [657  )  and 
was  nine  times  afterward  elected  a  deputy. 
In  [66]  lie  was  one  of  a  committee  to  seat 
the  meeting  house,  a  difficult  task,  because  the 
seating  determined  the  social  standing  of  all 
the  people.  The  spot  where  be  built  his  house 
in  Groton  in  [657  and  ever  afterward  resided, 
and  where  be  died,  is  a  few  rods  southeast 
of  tlie  Elijah  S.  Morgan  house,  three  miles 
from  the  Groton  ferry,  on  the  road  to  Po- 
quonoc  bridge,  and  this  homestead  has  de- 
scended down  to  the  present  generation  by  in- 
,  ice.  He  died  in  1685,  aged  seventy-eighj 
years,  and  his  estate  was  soon  after  divided 
among  his   four  surviving  children. 

He  married,  August  6,  1640,  Margery  Hill, 
of  Roxbury.  Children,  born  in  Roxbury,  ex- 
cept perhaps  the  youngest:  1.  Hannah,  born 
May  [8,  1642;  married,  November  20,  1660, 
Henehiam  Royce.  2.  James,  March  3,  1644; 
married,  in  November,  1666,  Mary  Vine.  3. 
John,  mentioned  below.  4.  Joseph,  Novem- 
ber 29,  1646.  5.  Abraham,  September  3,  1648, 
died  August,  1649.  6.  Daughter,  November 
17,  1650,  died  young. 

(II)  Captain  John  Morgan,  son  of  James 
Morgan,  was  born  March  30,  1645.  He  was 
a  prominent  man  and  served  as  Indian  com- 
missioner or  advisor.     He  was  deputy  to  the 


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general  court  from  New  London  in  1689-90, 
and  from  Preston  in  1693-94.  He  removed 
to  Preston  about  1692.  His  will  was  dated 
August  23,  1711,  proved  February  12,  1712. 
The  probate  of  the  will  was  appealed  from, 
as  he  made  no  mention  of  his  son  Joseph,  who 
appeared  as  a  party  in  the  proceedings.  He 
married  (first)  November  16,  1665,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  John  Dymond.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  (Jones)  Williams,  widow, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  Governor  William 
Jones,  of  New  Haven,  and  granddaughter  of 
Governor  Theophilus  Eaton.  Children  ot 
first  wife :  John,  mentioned  below ;  Samuel, 
born  September  9,  1669;  Isaac,  October  24. 
1670;  Hannah,  January  8,  1674;  Mercy,  May. 
1675;  Sarah,  April  13,  1678;  James,  about 
1680.  Children  of  second  wife:  Elizabeth, 
born  about  1690,  died  young;  William,  1693; 
Rachel,  baptized  April  19,  1697;  Audrea,  bap- 
tized same  day ;  Margery,  baptized  July  9, 
1699;  Joseph,  April  27,  1701  ;  Theophilus. 
May   16,   1703;  Mary,  married  John   Norton. 

(III)  Captain  John  (2)  Morgan,  eldest  son 
of  Captain  John  (1)  and  Rachel  (Dymond) 
Morgan,  was  born  June  10.  1667,  in  Groton, 
and  died  about  the  age  of  seventy-nine  years, 
between  May  30,  1744,  and  March  1,  1746, 
the  respective  dates  of  making  and  proving  his 
will.  He  was  lieutenant  of  the  first  train  band 
or  militia  company  of  Groton,  being  commis- 
sioned April  30,  1692,  at  the  same  time  that 
his  uncle,  James  Morgan,  was  made  captain  of 
the  company.  The  nephew  succeeded  the  lat- 
ter, October  8,  1714,  as  captain,  and  continued 
in  that  office  until  October  12,  1730.  He  left 
a  large  estate  in  both  real  and  personal  prop- 
erty. The  latter  was  bequeathed  to  his  daugh- 
ters, while  the  lands  descended  to  his  only 
son.  He  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Mary  (Rickett)  Shapley,  of  Groton,  whom 
he  survived.  Children :  Ruth,  born  August 
29,  1697;  Mary,  December  18,  1698;  John. 
January  4,  1700;  Sarah,  February  24,  1702; 
Experience,  March  24,  1704;  Hannah,  men- 
tioned below;  Rachel,  July  5,  1709;  Martha, 
December  12,  171 1;  Elizabeth,  June  12,  1713, 
Jemima,  May  5,  1715. 

(IV)  Hannah,  fifth  daughter  of  Captain 
John  (2)  and  Ruth  (Shapley)  Morgan,  was 
born  December  17,  1706,  in  Groton,  and  be 
came  the  wife  of  Peter  Plumb,  of  that  town 
(see  Plumb  VII). 


This  family  is  one  of  the  old- 
DOLSON  est  in  Manhattan,  coming  to 
New  Amsterdam  from  Holland 
before  1648.  Riker's  History  gives  space  to 
the  family  and  has  something  to  say  of  the 
Dutch  town  in  Holland  of  similar  name  where 
the  family  came  from. 

By  chance  Captain  Dolson,  progenitor  of 
the  family  in  America,  came  from  Workum 
on  the  coast  of  Friesland  instead  of  direct 
from  the  home  town  in  Holland.  At  New 
Amsterdam,  in  1667,  ne  built  the  first  vessel 
of  size  put  upon  the  stocks  here;  it  was  a 
merchant  yacht  for  Captain  Thomas  Bradley. 
Captain  Dolson  married  the  daughter  of 
Tennis  Kray  (Grey),  who  returned  to  New 
Amsterdam  in  1658,  where  he  had  already 
lived  for  several  years.  Tennis  Kray  went 
over  to  bring  back  his  family,  and  in  1660, 
at  New  Amsterdam,  his  daughter,  Gerritee. 
and  Captain  Dolson  were  married.  They 
lived  in  New  Amsterdam  until  the  Dutch  lost 
New  York,  and  then  for  a  time  in  New  Eng- 
land where  their  daughter  Gerritee  was  bom, 
later  returning  to  New  Amsterdam  and  the 
adjoining  town  of  New  Harlem.  Their  chil- 
dren, omitting  the  first  two  who  died  young, 
were:  Teunis,  born  1664,  married,  in  1696, 
Sarah  Vermilie ;  Gerritee,  born  1667,  married, 
in  1685,  Jans  Kiersen ;  Annetie,  born  1669, 
married,  in  1690,  Johannas  Waldron ;  Peter, 
born  1671 ;  Tryntie,  born  1674,  married  John 
Meyer;  Jacob,  born  1679;  Lyabet,  born  1682; 
Jannetie,  born  1685. 

In  1670  Captain  Dolson  sold  his  residence 
to  Resolved  Waldron,  but  subsequently  owned 
another  and  appears  among  the  feofholders, 
1681-83,  having  his  home  here  and  sailing  an 
open  boat  out  of  New  York.  It  is  recorded 
in  the  council's  minutes  of  January  28,  1684, 
that  he  desired  some  land  at  Harlem,  where 
he  formerly  had  owned  land.  It  was  agreed 
by  those  of  Harlem  to  give  him  a  piece  of 
ground  for  him  and  his  heirs  provided  he 
would  not  sell  it,  but  for  want  of  heirs  it 
should  relapse  to  the  township.  After  this  he 
and  his  son-in-law,  Jans  Kiersen,  got  a  lease 
of  the  Great  Maize  Land,  an  Indian  clearing 
not  far  from  Fort  Washington,  on  March  30, 
1686.  These  lands  were  laid  out  and  allotted 
in  1691,  and  Kiersen  on  July  2,  1694,  bought 
for  1,000  guilders  in  money  the  lots  Nos.  16 
and  18  from  Thomas  Tourneur  as  purchased 
by    him    from    Holmes    and    Waldron,    the 


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original  drawers.  In  .March,  1696,  Kiersen 
obtained  the  signature  of  every  inhabitant  of 
the  town  to  a  paper  granting  him  a  half  mor- 
gen  of  land  from  the  common  woods,  lying 
at  the  southeast  hook  of  the  land  that  Samuel 
Waldron  has  drawn  out  of  the  common  woods, 
which  half  morgen  of  land  he  (  Kiersen)  may 
build  upon,  thereon  setting  a  house,  barn  and 
garden,  for  which  he  promises  to  let  lie  a 
morgen  of  land  upon  the  northeast  hook  of 
the  aforesaid  lot,  leaving  a  suitable  road  or 
King's  way  between  his  house  and  the  lot  of 
Samuel  Waldron.  Kiersen  built  his  house, 
and  on  March  7,  1700,  the  town  officer  gave 
him  a  deed.  Mere  Kiersen  and  his  wife,  who 
was  Gerritee  Dolson,  lived.  This  was  the 
first  settlement  on  the  now  well  known  Jume! 
Homestead  and  believed  to  be  the  first  spot 
permanently  occupied  on  these  heights. 

In  1690  Johannes  Waldron,  son  of  Resolved 
Waldron,  married  Annetie,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Dolson.  To  begin  housekeeping  he  bought 
from  his  brother,  Samuel  Waldron,  the  new 
house  the  latter  had  just  completed  west  of 
the  road.  This  modest  home  was  just  north 
of  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-third  Street. 
Johannes  Waldron  added  to  this  property  by 
purchasing  more  ground,  from  the  town,  run- 
ning back  to  the  Hills.  From  this  fact  he  and 
his  wife  became  known,  as  they  prospered, 
as  the  Waldrons  of  the  Hill,  and  in  1748  sold 
all  their  lands  to  their  son  Samuel  for  £400. 
Samuel  Waldron's  daughter.  Angel,  the  wife 
of  Samuel  Myer,  sold  the  farm  in  July,  177'', 
to  John  De  Lancey  for  £1,720.  He  was  a 
grandson  of  the  great  Huguenot  merchant 
who  built  and  occupied  the  old  building  known 
as  Fraunce's  Tavern  at  the  corner  of  Pearl 
and  Broad  streets.  This  property  passed  into 
the  hands  of  Archibald  Watts  in  1820,  and  has 
become  well  known  as  the  Watts-Pickney  es- 
tate. Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  two  of  Captain 
Dolson's  children  were  the  original  residen- 
tees  on  two  estates  destined  to  become  of  the 
best  known  of  the  old  estates  of  New  York. 

As  proof  of  the  high  esteem  that  his  fellow 
citizens  had  for  Captain  Dolson  it  is  interest- 
ing to  note  that  Lubbert  Gerritsen  who  de- 
parted this  life  on  November  21.  1673,  and 
who  had  held  several  public  offices  in  the 
town,  being  chosen  adelborst  in  1663,  and  serv- 
ing as  overseer  the  year  before  he  died,  chose 
Captain  Dolson  as  guardian  of  his  children's 
inheritance. 


Captain  Dolson  appears  in  the  tax  list  o 
February  14,  1682,  and  in  1683  he  with  Jo 
hannes  Vermilye  and  Jan  Dyckman  and  other 
paid  a  total  of  608  guilders  for  the  estate  o 
the  deceased  Thomas   Hedding. 

Captain  Dolson's  son  Teunis  received  th 
appointment  of  constable,  September  29  169; 
He  is  credited  with  being  the  first  male  chil 
born  in  this  city  (  New  York )  after  it  wa 
ceded  to  the  English  by  the  1  hitch.  He  mar 
ried  Sarah  Vermilye,  daughter  of  Captai 
John  Vermilye,  in  New  Amsterdam  ( Ne\ 
York)  in  1696  and  later  lived  in  Westcheste 
county  and  advancing  to  different  localitie 
up  the  Hudson  river,  finally  locating  in  art' 
about  Goshen,  New  York,  where  is  establishe 
the  town  of  Dolsontown.  He  resided  her 
until  his  death,  August  30,  1766,  at  the  age  o 
one  hundred  and  two  years.  The  Dolsons  o 
Orange  county,  New  York,  are  his  descend 
ants. 

Some  of  his  children  were  baptized  a 
Poughkeepsie  and  others  at  Fishkill.  Th 
first  house  at  Dolsontown  was  a  log  hous 
loopholed  for  musketry  and  this  was  followe 
by  a  stone  house  which  was  used  as  a  forti 
fication  as  well  as  the  block  house  when  th 
Indians  were  troublesome  and  during  th 
French  and  Indian  war  of  1756.  Near  thi 
fortification  the  Indians  had  had  an  apple  01 
chard,  one  of  the  very  old  trees  of  which  wa 
still  standing  in  1846.  At  times  travel  betwree 
Goshen,  Dolsontown  and  Napanoch  was  onl 
possible  under  an  escort  of  soldiers  on  accour 
of  the  lurking  savages. 

Teunis  Dolson  had  several  children  anion 
whom  were:  I.  Johannas,  who  married  Eliza 
beth  Buys;  children:  Maria,  burn  1731;  Jo! 
amiis,  born  1735;  Isaac,  born  1739;  Abrahan 
born  1741  ;  Samuel,  born  1744:  Peter,  Sail) 
Betsey  2.  Jacob,  married  Maria  Buys,  Jam: 
ary  12,  1734,  having  children:  Teunis,  bor 
October  6,  1735:  Johannas.  born  May  1; 
1737;  Isaac,  born  May  2~,  1730;  Aeltie,  bor 
April  28,  1743.  3.  Abraham,  marrie 
Marytje  Slot,  having  children:  Jannetje,  bor 
1739;  Margaret,  born  1740:  Abraham,  bor 
1741  ;  Aeltje,  born  1743;  Marytje,  born  174; 
4.  Daac.  married  Polly  Hussey,  having  clu 
dren:  lames,  married  Phoebe  Meeker;  Isaai 
said  to  have  never  married.  James,  son  0 
Isaac,  was  living  in  1846.  aged  eighty-tw 
years. 

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we  are  now  chiefly  interested ;  they  lived  in 
md  about  the  vicinity  of  Newburg-Marlboro, 
where  they  signed  the  revolutionary  pledge 
n  1767.  They  and  their  children  served  in 
:he  American  army  during  the  revolution. 
Teunis  Dolson,  after  the  war  was  over,  took 
lp  lot  No.  118,  three  hundred  and  ninety  acres 

'.  n  town  of  Chemung-Big  Hats,  1788,  his  son 
John  accompanying  him.  This  John  also 
served  in  the  revolution  and  also  in  the  war 
af  1812.     He  was  born  in  1752,  married,  in 

11811,  and  lived  at  Big  Hats,  moving  in  1837- 
38  to  Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  and  in  1913  his 
daughter,  a  Mrs.  Andrews,  still  resides  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  aged  eighty-four  years ;  she 
says  her  father,  John  Dolson,  son  of  Teunis 
Dolson,  died  at  age  of  eighty-six  years;  that 
there  were  nine  children  by  his  last  wife,  in- 
cluding herself,  and  that  her  mother  died  in 
November,  1849. 

j  John  Dolson,  born  1737,  brother  of  Teunis, 
born  1735,  and  uncle  of  the  younger  John, 
born  1752,  continued  after  his  service  in  the 
revolutionary  army  to  live  in  the  Newburg- 
Marlboro  vicinity.  His  last  wife  was  named 
Sarah  and  outlived  him.  His  son,  Teunis,  born 
1783,  married  twice  and  had  a  total  of  ten 
children,  one  of  them,  James,  born  1812,  liv- 
ing to  very  old  age  at  Tuttletown,  Ulster  coun- 
ty, New  York;  he  remembered  his  step-grand- 
mother, Sarah  Dolson.  Teunis,  born  1783, 
had  half-brothers,  Jacob,  born  1791,  and  Wil- 
liam, born  October  28,  1794.  William  mar- 
ried Lydia  Polhemus,  born  June  29,  1804,  died 
March  4.  1869,  and  buried  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  in  the  J  W.  Dolson  plot.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Cornelius  Polhemus,  who 
had  a  brother,  Josiah  Webb  Polhemus.  Their 
children  were:  Hiram,  born  July  ir,  1819; 
Sarah,  born  March  18.  1821  ;  Anna,  born 
March  22,  1823;  Dorcas,  born  May  13,  1825; 
Josiah  W.,  born  July  27,  1827,  died  January 
81,  1890;  Catherine  M.,  born  February  13, 
1830;  Margaret,  born  June  30,  1832;  Charles 
M.,  born  September  23,  184^.  Sarah,  who 
was  named  after  her  grandmother,  remem- 
bered her  very  well  and  told  Josiah's  sons 
many  facts  of  interest  about  her  grandparents. 
Josiah  W.  and  his  brother,  Charles  M.  Dol 
son,  could  not  both  go  to  the  civil  war  and 
they  arranged  for  the  younger  brother,  Charles 
M.,  to  go,  Josiah  W.  endeavoring  to  support 
the  families  of  each.  Charles  M.  served  from 
start  to  finish,  was  a  prisoner  in  Libby  Prison 


and  when  freed  through  an  exchange  of 
prisoners  he  re-enlisted  at  Haverstraw,  New 
lork,  the  Edward  Pye  Post  Company.  Josiah 
W.  later  paid  draft  money  as  an  operation  on 
his  jaw  made  him  unfit  for  army  service,  and 
supported  the  two  families  through  the  means 
of  the  brick  business  in  which  he  was  then 
engaged.  The  last  brick  manufacturing  ven- 
ture of  Josiah  W.  Dolson  was  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  about  1890,  in  partnership  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Hon.  Samuel  Carlisle,  of 
Newburg,  New  York.  To  get  their  brick  to 
New  York  they  built  what  was  at  that  time  the 
largest  brick  barge  sailing  on  the  Hudson 
river,  a  boat  capable  of  carrying  about  300,000 
bricks  as  one  load.  This  boat  was  named 
"Josiah  W.  Dolson"  and  is  still  in  service. 

Josiah  W.  Dolson  married  several  times,  his 
first  wife  being  Phoebe  Ann  Loveless,  born 
May  7,  1832;  they  were  married  December  5, 
1849;  she  died  May  27,  1856.  Their  children 
were:  Cornelius,  born  July  7,  1850,  died  De- 
cember 4,  1853 ;  Josiah  W.,  born  December 
7,  1851,  died  September  6,  1859;  Samuel  Car- 
lisle, born  September  28,  1853,  stu'  living  in 
1913;  Frederick  B.,  born  May  8,  1856,  died 
August  8,  1856;  Lucy  C,  twin  of  Frederick 
B.,  died  October  13,  1856.  Mr.  Dolson  mar- 
ried (second)  Jane  Constant,  born  October 
31,  1821,  died  November  25,  1867.  He  mar- 
ried (third)  Cornelia  M.  Constant,  born  April 
13,  1840,  died  February  16,  1873.  Children 
by  these  marriages :  Anthony  Constant,  born 
June  4,  i860,  died  same  day;  Lewis  Constant, 
born  May  2^,  1861,  died  April  27,  1865; 
Frank,  born  July  26,  1863,  died  August  10, 
1863.  He  married  (  fourth  )  Anna  Hamilton 
Conklin,  born  October  17,  1845,  died  Novem- 
ber 9,  1895,  daughter  of  Mannings  Conklin 
and  the  widow  of  Alfred  Conklin,  who  was 
also  her  second  cousin.  She  was  the  mother 
of  two  children  by  her  first  husband,  namely 
Abram  J.,  born  January  31,  1865.  living  at 
the  present  time,  and  Alfreta,  born  June  10, 
1868,  died  July  1,  1903.  On  July  19,  1874, 
she  married  Josiah  W.  Dolson,  and  their  chil- 
dren are :  Josiah  W.,  Florence  Jones,  William 
Hamilton,  Esther  Phoebe  Carlisle,  all  born 
at  Haverstraw,  New  York.  These  children  are 
all  living  at  the  present  time  and  reside  in 
New  York  City  with  the  exception  of  Florence 
J.,  who  is  married  to  Walter  Rauscher  and 
resides  in  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey.  William 
H.    Dolson   is   the   founder   of   the   Rockland 


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County   Society  and  Josiah  W.   is  at  present 
the  secretary  of  that  organization. 


This  is  a  Dutch  name  con- 

SIMONS<  IN  forming  to  the  usual  custom 
of  adding  "son"  to  the  bap- 
tismal name  of  the  father  for  a  surname.  1: 
was  of  French  origin,  and  begins  with  one 
who  fled  from  persecution  in  France  to  Fries- 
land  in  Holland.  His  son,  Simon  La  Blau 
(also  written  Elan  and  Blant),  was  born  about 
1590  in  Friesland,  and  went  to  Amsterdam, 
win.  re  he  settled  and  married. 

(1)  Willem,  son  of  Simon  La  Blau,  born 
in  [632,  in  Amsterdam,  was  the  ancestor  of 
a  very  large  progeny,  now  scattered  ovei 
America,  lie  wa^  entered  on  the  passenger 
li-t  of  the  ship  "Fox,"  Captain  Jacob  Jans 
Huys,  master,  which  sailed  from  Amsterdam, 
August  31,  [662,  and  lived  in  and  about  New 
Amsterdam,  finally  settling  on  Staten  Island. 
He  first  wrote  his  name  William  Simon's  sun, 
which  soon  came  to  be  written  Simonson,  and 
thus  the  name  has  remained  in  this  country. 
But  few  records  concerning  him  can  now  be 
found.  lie  married,  in  1662,  Janneken  Bar- 
entsen,  widow  of  Jan  Quistout,  and  accord- 
ing to  the  records  of  the  Dutch  church  in  New 
York  died  in  1664.  The  Dutch  church  record  i 
of  New  Amsterdam  show  that  he  bad  a  daugh- 
ter, Lysbeth,  baptized  June  id.  1663.  Records 
furnished  by  the  family  indicate  that  he  had 
a  son,  Aert,  born  1664. 

(IF)  The  records  of  Long  Island  show  that 
Aert  Simonson  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  as 
a  native  of  Brooklyn,  in  1687.  Nothing  fur- 
ther concerning  him  has  been  discovered.  From 
die  next  generation  forward  the  line  seems 
to  be  clearly  established.  Aert  Simonson  bail 
four  sons:  Barnt,  Aert,  Simon  and  Isaac.  An 
original  tract  of  land  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  was  granted  to  Aert  (  1  )  Simonson 
in  1 72 1,  by  Queen  Anne,  at  Carls  Neck,  now 
known  as   New  Springville,  Staten  Island. 

(Ill)  Isaac,  son  of  Aert  Simonson,  was 
born  about  1690.  He  appears  to  have  had  two 
wives;  married  (tirst)  Antje  Van  Der  Vliet, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Janse  and  Marrctje  ( Der- 
ickse)  Van  Der  Vliet,  who  was  the  mothei 
of  Jeremias,  baptized  June  12,  1720,  and  Mari 
Simonson,  July  8,  1722.  The  Dutch  church 
records  of  New  Amsterdam  show  that  Isaac 
Simonson's  wife,  in  1712.  was  Neeltie  Cortel- 
you,   a   granddaughter   of   Jacques   Cortelyou, 


who  came  to  America  about  1652,  died  169 
Ilis  son,  I'eter  Cortelyou,  born  about  166 
died  April  10,  1757,  married  Deborah  De  Wit 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  Neeltje  Corte 
you.  who  became  the  wife  of  Isaac  Simoi 
son. 

(  IV)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Isaac  (1)  and  Nee 
tje  (Cortelyou)  Simonson,  was  born  Augu 
4  1732,  and  baptized  December  17.  1732,  ; 
the  church  in  New  Amsterdam.  He  was  s 
officer  of  the  old  Dutch  Reformed  church,  ; 
Port  Richmond,  and  in  1795  signed  the  call  ( 
the  Rev.  Thomas  Kirby  as  pastor.  He  ma 
ried.  July  28,   1757.  Elizabeth  Wood. 

(  Y )  Joseph,  son  of  Isaac  121  and  Eliz; 
beth  (Wood)  Simonson,  was  born  on  State 
Island,  and  purchased  forty-one  acres  of  lar 
at  what  is  now  New  Springville,  State 
Island.  He  probably  owned  other  lands  : 
that  vicinity.  He  married  Elizabeth  Winan 
born  July  2't.  1774.  daughter  of  John  ar 
Hannah  Winant.  They  bad  children:  Job 
David;  Abraham;  Joseph:  Jacob,  of  who: 
further;  Eliza:  Joanna,  married  John  B.  Hil 
yer,  born  t8o8,  died  [908,  aged  over  one  hui 
dred  years,  their  marriage  taking  place  ; 
1829,  at  New  Springville,  Staten  Island,  ar 
they  became  the  parents  of  lames  Hillyer,  c 
Port  Richmond;  Mary;  Jemima. 

(  VI  1  Jacob,  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabel 
(Winant)  Simonson,  was  born  in  1798,  c 
Staten  Island,  and  settled  on  the  original  hom< 
stead  of  his  father  at  New  Springville,  whet 
the  records  show  he  purchased  twenty-thn 
acres  of  land.  He  was  supervisor  of  the  tow 
of  Northfield  from  1833  to  1840,  again  in  184 
and  was  elected  sheriff  of  Richmond  count 
in  [840.  He  located  at  New  Springville,  St; 
ten  Island,  where  he  died  April  4,  1883.  H 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcop; 
church,  and  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  aft< 
the  organization  of  the  party  of  that  nam 
He  married  ( first  i  Ann  Eliza  Bedell,  daugl 
ter  of  Israel  and  Lena  (Crocheron)  Bedel 
and  (second")  Caroline  Jacques.  By  the  fir: 
marriage  he  had  a  son,  John  William,  of  whoi 
further.  By  the  second  marriage  he  had  chi 
dren :  Isaac  Jacques,  Joseph,  Eliza  Jane,  lacol 
the  daughter  married  Philip  Waters,  of  Ne- 
York. 

(  YII )  John  William,  son  of  Jacob  and  An 
E.  (Bedell)  Simonson,  was  born  Decembe 
23,  1826.  died  December  28,  1882,  at  We: 
New  Brighton.     He  became  agent  of  the  Cor 


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tinental  Fire  Insurance  Company  in  18O0,  and 
;oon  after  was  made  secretary  of  the  old  New 
York  &  Yonkers  Fire  Insurance  Company.  He 
was  afterward  president  of  the  New  York  City 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  which  was  ulti- 
mately absorbed  by  the  Standard  In- 
surance     Company,     of     London,     England. 

,  Following  this  he  was  resident  manager 
jf   this    concern    until    his    death.      He    filled 

I  various  offices  of  trust  in  political  affairs,  was 
in  ardent  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  married, 
January  18,  185 1,  Charlotte  Ann  Stephens, 
3orn  February  24,  1832,  daughter  of  Stephen 

I  Dover  and  Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Stephens.  The 
after  was  born  January  28,  181 1,  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  (Latourette)  Johnson. 
Stephen  D.  Stephens  was  a  great-grandson  of 
fohn  Stephens,  born  about  1714.  married 
April  26,  1736,  Mary  Harding.  Their  son, 
fohn  1 2  )  Stephens,  born  1743,  married,  De- 
cember 8,  1763,  Elizabeth  DeBow.  They  were 
:he  parents  of  Stephen,  born  December  31, 
[774,  married,  March  5,  1803,  Ann  Dover, 
iorn  Actober  17,  1781.  Stephen  Dover 
Stephens,  their  son,  was  the  father  of  Char 
otte  Ann,  wife  of  John  W.  Simonson,  as  above 
loted.  They  had  children:  Stephen  Dover, 
jorn  August  20,  1853,  died  unmarried,  Octo- 
>er  4,  1905;  John  William,  July  14,  i860,  died 
n  his  fifth  year;  Ann  Eliza,  July  20,  1862,  died 
jnmarried  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  years; 
Charles  Edgar,  of  whom  further. 

(VIII)  Charles  Edgar,  youngest  child  of 
lohn  William  and  Charlotte  A.  (Stephens) 
-Mtiionson,  was  born  July  7,  1 871,  in  Richmond. 
rle  early  received  private  tuition  at  West  New 
Brighton  and  entered  Trinity  School,  New 
Brighton,  where  he  graduated,  after  which  ho 
'eceived  private  instruction  of  Rev.  Dr.  Al- 
fred Demarest,  minister  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church  of  Port  Richmond.  At  the 
ige  of  seventeen  years  he  entered  the  employ 
>f  Miller  &  Simonson,  who  succeeded  John 
William  Simonson,  in  the  agency  of  the  Con- 
:inental  Insurance  Company.  By  close  ap- 
ilication  and  industry  he  built  up  a  large  busi 
less,  and  after  several  changes  in  the  person- 
lel,  became  its  sole  owner  in  1908.  Conduct- 
ng  the  business  under  the  title  of  C.  E.  Simon- 
ion  &  Company.  Owing  to  the  great  increase 
}f  business  a  corporation  seemed  advisable 
ind  in  191 1  this  was  accomplished  under  the 
:itle    of    C.    E.    Simonson    &    Company,    In- 


corporated. It  is  now  the  largest  insurance 
brokerage  and  agency  on  Staten  Island,  repre- 
senting twenty-nine  fire  insurance  companies 
and  several  casualty  companies  and  having 
five  offices,  the  home  office  located  at  1595 
Richmond  Terrace,  West  New  Brighton.  An 
extensive  real  estate  business  is  conducted,  and 
the  concern  acts  as  appraiser  for  several  title 
and  trust  companies.  In  1904  Mr.  Simonson 
was  elected  a  vestryman  and  treasurer  of  the 
Church  of  the  Ascension  (Protestant  Episco 
pal ) ,  in  which  position  he  continued  several 
years.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Richmond 
County  Savings  Bank,  and  a  director  of  the 
Staten  Island  Building,  Loan  et  Savings  As- 
sociation, a  member  of  the  Holland  Society  of 
New  York,  and  the  Staten  Island  Club.  Poli- 
tically he  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  never  aspired 
to  or  accepted  any  political  office. 

He  married,  January  19.  1899,  in  New  York 
City,  May  Sexton,  born  May  20,  1870,  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  daughter  of  William 
Libby  and  Mary  (Ladd)  Sexton.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  E.  Simonson  have  a  son,  Cortel- 
you  William,  born  December  15,  1902,  in  West 
New  Brighton.  His  early  instruction  was  pro- 
vided by  private  tutors  and  he  is  now  a  student 
of  the  Staten  Island  Academy  at  St.  George 


Robert      R.      Livingston. 

LIVINGSTON  jurist,  son  of  Robert  and 
Margaret  (Howerden) 
Livingston,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  in 
August,  1718.  died  at  his  country  seat,  Cler- 
mont. New  York,  December  9,  1775.  He  ac- 
quired an  excellent  education  which  thor- 
oughly prepared  him  for  the  active  duties  of 
life,  and  he  devoted  his  attention  to  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  provincial  assembly,  1759-68, 
and  also  served  in  the  capacity  of  judge  of  the 
admiralty  court.  1760-63;  justice  of  the  co- 
lonial supreme  court.  1763;  a  delegate  to  the 
stamp  act  con.o-res-.  of  1765;  commissioner  to 
decide  upon  the  boundary  line  between  New 
York  and  Massachusetts.  1767.  and  again  in 
1773,  and  a  member  of  the  committee  of  one 
hundred  in  1775.  He  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Henry  and  Janet  (Living- 
ston) Beekman. 

Robert  R.  (2),  son  of  Robert  R.  ( 1)  and 
Margaret  (Beekman)  Livingston,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  November  27,  1746,  died 
suddenly  at  Clermont,  New  York,  February  26,. 


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1813.  He  was  a  student  at  King's  College, 
which  institution  conferred  upon  him  the  de- 
grees of  A.B.,  1765.  and  A.M.,  [768,  after 
which  he  pursued  the  study  of  law  under  the 
preceptorship  of  William  Smith  and  William 
Livingston.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1773,  and  formed  a  partnership  with  John  Jay, 
with  whom  he  practiced  in  New  York  City,  and 
upon  his  retirement  from  public  life  removed 
to  Clermont,  New  York,  where  he  engaged  in 
agriculture  and  stock  raising,  being  the  first 
to  introduce  gypsum  in  agriculture,  ami  also 
introduced  Merino  sheep  west  of  the  Hudson 
river.  Being  a  man  of  scholarly  attainment 
and  wide  influence,  he  was  chosen  for  posi- 
tions of  public  trust  and  responsibility,  fulfill- 
ing the  duties  thereof  with  ability  and  credit. 
He  served  as  recorder  of  the  city  of  New 
York  by  appointment  of  Governor  Tryon, 
1773-75,  hut  was  obliged  to  relinquish  the  posi- 
tion on  account  of  his  outspoken  espousal  of 
the  patriot  cause  in  the  latter-named  year,  lie 
wa^  a  member  of  the  provincial  assembly  in 
1775:  was  a  delegate  to  the  continental  con- 
gress, \J7S~77  :m'l  1 779-8l.  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  of  five,  comprised  of 
Adams,  Jefferson,  Franklin,  Livingston  and 
Sherman,  appointed  to  draw  up  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  hut  was  obliged  to  re- 
turn to  his  duties  in  the  provincial  assembly 
without  signing  the  instrument.  lie  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  that  drafted  the 
state  constitution  adopted  at  the  Kingston 
convention  in  1777;  he  was  chancellor  of  the 
state  under  the  new  constitution,  1785-1801, 
and  in  that  capacity  he  administered  the  oath 
of  office  to  President  Washington,  April  30, 
17X11;  he  was  secretary  of  foreign  affairs  for 
the  United  States,  1781-83,  ami  was  chair- 
man of  (lie  siafe  convention  at  Poughkeepsie 
in  1788,  to  consider  the  adoption  of  the  United 
States  constitution.  He  declined  the  office  of 
United  States  minister  to  France  proffered  by 
President  Washington  in  1704,  and  in  7801 
the  portfolio  of  the  navy  from  President  Tef- 
ferson,  who  also  offered  him  the  mission  to 
France,  which  latter  he  accepted,  resigning 
his  chancellorship.  While  in  France  he  formed 
a  strong  friendship  with  Napoleon  Bonaparte; 
he  also  made  the  initial  movement  that  re- 
sulted in  the  purchase  of  Louisiana  from  the 
French  in  1803.  He  resigned  from  the  office 
of  United  States  minister  to  France  in  1803, 
after  which  he  spent  some  time  in  traveling 


through  Europe,  and  while  in  I'aris  becan 
interested  in  the  invention  of  the  steamboat  < 
Robert  Fulton,  whom  he  assisted  in  his  ei 
terprise  with  his  counsel  and  money,  event 
ally  becoming  his  partner.  The  first  steambo; 
owned  by  Livingston  and  Fulton,  was  built 
France  and  was  launched  upon  the  Seine,  b 
was  a  failure,  and  on  returning  to  Amerii 
they  built  and  launched  on  the  Hudson  a 
other  steamboat,  the  "Clermont."  in  18c 
which  was  named  in  honor  of  the  Livingstc 
home  in  New  York. 

The  honorary  degree  id'  LL.D.  was  co 
ferred  on  Mr.  Livingston  be  the  regents  of  tl 
University  of  the  State  of  New  York  in  17c 
He  was  a  founder  of  the  American  Acaden 
of  Fine  Arts  in  New  York  in  1801,  and  w 
its  first  president  ;  was  president  of  the  Nc 
York  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  L'sef 
Arts,  and  upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Nc 
York  Society  library  in  1788,  he  was  a 
pointed  a  trustee  lie  published  many  essa 
and  addresses  on  fine  arts  and  agricultui 
His  statue,  with  that  of  George  Clinton,  fori 
ing  the  group  of  the  most  eminent  citizens 
New  York,  was  placer!  in  the  capitol  at  Was 
ington  by  act  of  congress.  In  the  selection 
names  for  a  place  in  the  Hall  of  Fame  f 
( ireat  Americans,  New  York  Universal 
made  in  October,  1900,  his  was  one  of  t 
thirty-seven  names  in  "Class  M,  Rulers  a: 
Statesmen,"  and  received  only  three  voti 
hi-  votes  in  the  class  equalling  those  f 
Richard  Henry  Lee  ami  Stephen  A.  Dougli 
and  exceeding  those  for  Martin  Van  Burt 
Charles  Carroll,  of  Carrollton,  John  J.  Cr 
tenden  and  I  lenry  Wilson. 

Mr.  Livingston  married  Mary,  daughter 
John  Stevens,  of  New  Jersey.  Childre 
Elizabeth  S.,  married  Edward  P.  Livingstc 
Margaret  M.,  married  Robert  L.   Livingstc 


This  name  is  supposed  to  ha 
DeBAUN  been  originally  DeBaen,  and 
be  derived  from  Baen,  a  villa 
in  France.  In  the  Dutch  records,  the  spellir 
ings  DeBaen  and  DeBaan  are  of  frequent  c 
currence.  The  family  is  undoubtedly 
French  origin,  and  from  this  it  is  natural 
suppose  that  they  were  Huguenots.  It  is  r 
at  all  out  of  accord  with  this  that  the  nat 
should  be  found  in  the  Netherlands,  especia 
on  the  north  side  of  the  river  Rhine,  in  t 


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ower  Palatinate,  and  thence  following  the 
ourse  of  immigration  that  built  up  New 
tetherland  and  New  Amsterdam.  Although 
hese  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  English 
a  the  year  1664,  this  change  of  proprietor- 
hip  did  not  stop  the  flow  of  immigration  from 
•"ranee  to  Holland,  Belgium  and  England,  and 
nd  from  these  countries  to  America.  The 
)eBauns  were  among  the  later  Huguenots, 
•  nd  came  to  New  York  or  its  vicinity  about 
683.  They  may  have  lived  before  that  time, 
or  two  generations,  in  Holland,  and  had, 
loubtless,  acquired  the  habits  and  language  of 
he  Dutch. 

I  The  following  is  a  probable  account  of  the 
lescent  from  the  immigrant  to  certain  of  the 
>resent  Rockland  county,  New  York,  De- 
iauns.  It  has  a  background  of  careful  and 
xtensive  searching  in  the  printed  Dutch 
hurch  records  of  Hackensack  and  Schraalen- 
lurg,  New  Jersey ;  the  printed  baptismal  rec- 
irds  of  Tappan  and  Clarkstown,  in  Rockland 
ounty,  and  in  the  manuscript  copies  of  the 
narriage  records  of  Tappan  and  Clarkstown. 
The  records  of  Kakiat,  Rockland  county, 
tarrytown,  Westchester  county,  and  Flatbush, 
^ong  Island,  have  also  been  consulted,  but  in 
hese  little  or  nothing  has  been  found.  The 
:ntries  are  mostly  in  the  Tappan,  Clarkstown, 
hackensack,  and  Schraalenburg  records,  but 
listributed  among  these  in  a  bewildering  man- 
ler  Conjecture  has  been  used  only  when  cer- 
ain  fact  was  not  accessible.  Former  printed 
iccounts  of  the  family,  of  which  there  are 
several,  have  furnished  some  guidance,  but  the 
iccount  given  herewith  supplies  a  number  of 
leficiencies  in  these  accounts,  and  casts  doubt 
m  some  of  their  statements,  so  that  we  are 
•onfident  that  this  is  the  fullest  and  most  ac- 
:urate  account  of  the  family  history  in  the 
:arly  generations  which  has  yet  been  published. 
( I )  Joost  DeBaun,  the  founder  of  this  fam- 
ly,  is  said  to  have  been  a  native  of  Brussels, 
n  Flanders  (Belgium),  and  to  have  come  to 
New  Amsterdam  in  1683.  He  was  clerk  of 
:he  town  of  Bushwick.  Long  Island,  in  1684. 
ind  in  1685  was  the  schoolmaster  and  clerk  of 
:he  town  of  New  Utrecht,  Kings  county,  New 
York,  south  of  the  Wallabout.  The  position 
}f  schoolmaster  was,  in  those  times  and  places, 
second  only  to  that  of  the  minister.  Evidently 
ie  was  a  supporter  of  the  policy  of  the  lieu- 
tenant governor,  Nicholson,  for  when  the 
iemocratic  colonists,  under  the  lead  of  Cap- 


tain Jacob  Leisler,  took  possession  of  the  state 
house  in  the  name  of  William  of  Orange,  and 
Captain  Leisler  was  appointed  lieutenant  gov- 
ernor by  the  committee  of  safety,  Joost  De- 
Baun was  deposed  from  his  offices  as  clerk 
and  schoolmaster.  Afterward,  having  taken 
the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  new  rule,  he  was 
reinstated  in  these  positions,  and  continued  to 
reside  at  New  Utrecht.  He  probably  resided 
at  that  village  until  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century.  Early  in  the  year  1704  he  sold  his 
lands  and  removed  to  Bergen  county,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  joined  the  Kinderkamack 
settlement,  near  Hackensack.  In  November 
of  that  year  his  name  appears  as  witness  of  a 
baptism  in  his  new  home.  From  May.  1708, 
to  May,  1 710,  he  was  one  of  the  churchmas- 
ters  of  Hackensack ;  according  to  the  church 
records,  he  and  the  other  churchmaster  of  the 
time  (in  1708)  "in  this  year  caused  the  steeple 
to  be  built  upon  the  Ackinsack  church,  which 
has  here  been  recorded  in  their  praise."  He  was 
an  elder,  from  1716  to  1718.  Thus  we  have 
a  fair  picture  of  the  personality  of  this  man; 
he  was  an  educated  man,  for  the  time,  a  leader 
in  the  community,  though  hardly  to  be  deemed 
aggressive,  and  strongly  attached  to  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church.  From  him,  it  is  natural  to 
suppose,  all  the  DeBauns  of  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  of  Rockland  county.  New 
York,  are  descended.  His  death  seems  to  have 
occurred  about  1718  or  1719.  It  is  just  possi- 
ble that  he  once  returned  to  Holland  after  his 
settlement  in  America,  for  against  the  mar- 
riage record  of  his  son  Jacobus,  in  the  Tappan 
register,  is  set  a  note  that  this  son  was  born 
in  Middleburg,  a  place  in  Holland.  Yet  the 
Dutch  dominies,  with  all  their  painstaking  care, 
were  certainly  human,  and  liable  to  make  oc- 
casional mistakes ;  their  records  are  of  hieh 
value  as  evidence,  but  this  statement  is  prob- 
ably erroneous.  He  married,  probably  in  Hol- 
land, Elizabeth  Drabba.  Children:  Matie, 
married,  registered  November  10.  1705,  David 
Samuelse  DeMaree ;  Christian,  baptized  May 
15,  1687.  died  before  January  21.  1711,  mar- 
ried, registered  January  29,  1709,  Judith  Sam- 
uelse DeMaree  ;  Meyke,  baptized  May  4,  1690  ; 
Carel,  of  whom  further ;  Christina ;  Jacobus, 
married  (date  probably  that  of  registration), 
January  12,  1709,  Antje  Cenneff  (this  is  the 
spelling  in  the  Tappan  register,  in  the  Hacken- 
sack records  the  name  appears  as  Kennis ;  our 
conjecture  is  Kenneth)  ;  Margarietje,  married 


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(date  probably  that  of  registration),  June  2$, 
1738,  Theodorus  Remsen. 

(Ill  Carel,  son  of  Joust  and  Elizabeth 
(Drabba)  DeBaun,  removed  with  his  family 
lu  Hackensack.  Perhaps,  however,  he  lived 
for  a  time  in  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
near  Rockland  Lake.  The  baptisms  of  his 
children  are  scattered  among  the  three  regis- 
ters, Hackensack,  Schraalenburg  and  Tappan. 
He  is  named  in  the  list  of  the  original  mem- 
bers rif  the  church  at  Schraalenburg  and  those 
transferred  from  Hackensack  before  1733.  In 
1748  he  was  an  elder  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church  at  Schraalenburg.  His  marriage  is  re- 
corded at  Tappan,  and  the  date,  February  14, 
1714,  is  probably  the  date  of  registration 
rather  than  of  the  actual  marriage.  He  mar- 
lied  Jannetje  Haringh,  who  was  born  at  Tap- 
pan.  Children:  Joost,  baptized  February  6, 
1715;  Margritie,  baptized  August  18,  1 7 1 7 ; 
Petrus.  baptized  October  9,  1719;  Elisabeth. 
baptized  November  19,  1721  ;  Jan,  baptized 
April  5,  17-4;  Jacob,  baptized  October  9, 
1726;  Isak,  baptized  February  14,  1720:  Abra- 
ham, baptized  December  12,  1731  ;  Christiaen, 
of  whom  further ;  Cornelia,  baptized  August 
14.  1737;  Maria,  baptized  April  6  1740. 

(Ill)  Christian,  whose  name  is  noted  above 
as  spelled  in  the  baptismal  record,  son  of  Carel 
and  Jannetje  (  Haringh)  DeBaun,  was  burn  at 
Schraalenburg;  his  baptism  is  recorded  at 
Hackensack.  under  date  of  January  26,  1735. 
He  married,  registered  November  7.  [761, 
Rachel  Helm  who  was  born  at  Paramus,  Ber- 
gen county,  New  Jersey.  Children:  Jannetie, 
baptizeil  October  19,  1762;  Fransytie,  born 
March  8,  17^4:  Fransvtei.  born  January  9, 
1766;  Abraham,  baptized  May  10,  1767,  died 
voting;  Samuel,  baptizeil  December  18,  1768; 
Elisabet,  born  October  11,  1771  ;  Abraham 
Christian,  born  August  20,  177,1:  Rachel,  burn 
May  o.  1775:  Petrus,  born  May  5.  1770:  Cor- 
neles,  baptized  November  25,  1781  ;  Maria, 
born  August  1,  1783;  Christian  (21.  of  whom 
further. 

(TV)  Christian  (2).  son  of  Christian  (1) 
and  Rachel  (Helm)  DeBaun,  was  born  March 
22,  1787.  Although  his  baptism  is  record*  d  in 
Bergen  countv,  New  Jersey,  he  may  have  been 
born  in  Rockland  county,  New  York,  and  was 
living  there  by  the  time  of  his  marriage,  for 
in  the  entrv  of  his  marriage  in  the  Tappan 
register  he  is  said  to  be  of  Clarkstown.  He 
was    a    farmer,   and    in    politics    followed    the 


principles  "f  the  Democratic  party.  In  r 
ligion  he  adhered  to  the  True  Reforme 
church.  He  married  (  date  probably  being  th; 
of  registration)  December  4,  1806,  Elizabei 
Mutton,  of  Clarkstown.  Children:  Corneli; 
Sarah;  Christian  C,  of  whom  further;  Join 
Henry  ;  Mary  ;  Cornelius. 

(V)  Christian  C,  son  of  Christian  (2)  ar 
Elizabeth  (Hutton)  DeBaun,  was  born 
Clarkstown,  January  31,  1812.  He  was 
builder  and  contractor.  After  the  formatic 
of  the  Republican  party  he  followed  its  pri' 
ciples.  In  religion  he  was  a  member  of  tl 
Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  married  at  Ne 
City,  Rockland  county.  New  York,  Catharii 
Maria,  daughter  of  Henry  Resolvert  ar 
Maria  (  Tallman  )  Stephens,  who  was  born 
New  City,  March  1.  1815.  Her  father  was 
farmer,  born  January  in,  1789,  died  March 
1868;  her  mother  was  born  in  1787,  died 
October,  1868.  Children  of  Christian  C.  at 
Catharine  Maria  (Stephens)  DeBaun:  Eliz 
beth,  born  August  3,  1835  ;  Matthew  Watso 
of  whom  further:  John,  born  July  5,  184 
died  in  1887;  Henry,  born  July  12.  184 
served  throughout  the  civil  war;  Margar 
Jane,  born  November  18,  1846;  Charles,  bo 
June  20,  1857. 

(VI)  Matthew  Watson,  son  of  Christian 
and  Catharine  Maria  ( Stephens )  DeBau 
was  born  at  Nyack,  Rockland  county,  Ne 
York,  November  3,  1838.  At  the  age  of  nil 
he  went  to  live  with  his  grandfather.  Hen 
Resolvert  Stephens,  at  New  City.  His  schoc 
ing  was  received  at  the  public  schools  of  N 
ack  and  New  City,  and  he  then  learned  tl 
trade  of  a  carpenter.  In  1850  he  returned 
Nyack  and  entered  into  business  with  r 
brother  Henry,  and  this  partnership  has  co 
tinued  to  the  present  day.  Under  the  fir 
name  of  Matthew  Watson  &  Henry  DeBat 
they  are  builders  and  contractors  on  a  lar 
scale  and  have  built  up  a  profitable  busine 
and  gained  a  high  standing  in  the  communil 
They  have  erected  about  two  thousand  buil 
ings  of  main-  kinds  and  sizes.  Their  place 
business  is  at  No.  28  Jackson  avenue.  Nyac 
Matthew  Watson  DeBaun  is  one  of  the  c 
rectors  of  the  Nyack  Board  of  Trade,  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Oakland  cemetery.  He  is 
member  of  Rockland  Lodge,  No.  yz^,,  Fr 
and  Accepted  Masons,  and  of  Rockland  Cha 
ter.  No.  204.  Royal  Arch  Masons,  both 
Nyack.      He  is  a  Republican,  and   from   i8i 


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:o  1887  was  trustee  of  the  village ;  he  has  also 
jeen  president  of  the  school  board  for  two 
:erms,  and  is  a  trustee  of  the  Nyack  public 
schools.  The  family  are  members  of  the  Pres- 
oyterian  church  at  Nyack,  of  which  Mr.  De- 
Baun  has  been  a  trustee  for  over  thirty  years, 
ind  is  also  an  elder  of  the  church.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Nyack,  April  23.  1862,  Catharine 
Amelia,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Marion 
(House)  Perry,  who  was  born  at  Nyack.  in 
August,  1842.  Her  father  was  a  captain  of 
freight  and  passenger  vessels,  and  navigated 
the  Hudson  river.  Children  of  Edward  and 
Marion  (House)  Perry:  Iona ;  Catharine 
Amelia,  married  Matthew  Watson  DeBaun. 
Children  of  Matthew  Watson  and  Catharine 
Amelia  (Perry)  DeBaun:  Annie,  born  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1863;  Ella,  born  October  12,  1864; 
Alice,  born  December  4,  1867;  Florence,  born 
March  n,  1875,  married  Rev.  George  John- 
son, now  a  professor  in  Lincoln  University, 
Pennsylvania. 


(IV)  Abraham  Christian  De- 
DeBAUN  Baun,  son  of  Christian  (q.  v.) 
and  Rachel  (Helm)  DeBaun. 
was  born  August  20,  1773.  He  was  a  farmer 
at  Nanuet,  Rockland  county,  New  York,  and 
a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He 
married,  it  is  said  at  Saddle  River.  Bergen 
county,  New  Jersey,  but  the  marriaee  is  re- 
corded in  the  register  of  Tappan,  Rockland 
county.  New  York,  with  the  date,  probablv 
that  of  registration  rather  than  of  the  actual 
marriage,  March  18.  1708.  Anna  Van  Buskirk, 
of  Clarkstown,  Rockland  county.  New  York. 
Children:  Christian  Abram.  of  whom  fur- 
ther :  Rachel ;  Christiana. 

(V)  Christian  Abram,  son  of  Abraham 
Christian  and  Anna  (Van  Buskirk)  DeBaun, 
was  born  at  Nanuet,  New  York,  about  1804. 
After  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  he 
adhered  to  its  policies.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  married 
(first)  (date  probably  of  registration)  October 
15.  1825,  Hannah,  daughter  of  James  D.  and 
Hannah  Blauvelt,  who  was  born  at  Clarks- 
town, Rockland  county,  New  York,  Tune  1, 
1808,  died  December  17,  1846;  (second)  Tanu- 
ary  1.  1850,  Sally  Ackerman.  Children,  all  by 
first  marriage:  Abram,  of  whom  further: 
Rachel,  born  December  19.  183 1,  died  August 
28,  1849;  Christian,  born  December  20.   1834. 

(VI)  Abram,  son  of  Christian  Abram  and 


Hannah  (Blauvelt J  DeBaun,  was  born  at 
Nanuet,  New  York,  January  21,  1827,  died  at 
Wyandotte  City,  Kansas,  May  21,  1857.  Hav- 
ing first  attended  public  school  at  Nyack, 
Rockland  county,  New  York,  he  entered  the 
normal  college  at  Albany,  New  York,  and 
from  this  he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1848. 
Later  he  taught  school  at  Haverstraw,  and 
was  finally  made  principal  of  the  school.  Also 
at  Haverstraw  he  learned  the  business  of  mak- 
ing brick,  and  in  1852  he  went  into  the  busi- 
ness of  brick  manufacture,  and  also  built  an 
iron  foundry,  wherein  he  made  the  castings 
for  brick  forms  and  molds.  This  grew  into  a 
very  large  business,  and  so  continued  until  his 
death  at  Wyandotte  City.  He  was  a  member 
of  Seguel  Lodge,  No.  542,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  lie  was  a  Republican,  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  this  party,  which  came 
into  existence  only  a  few  years  before  his 
death.  In  1855  he  was  elected  county  clerk 
of  Rockland  county,  and  he  served  for  one 
term,  but  he  refused  a  second  election.  A 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  be  was 
for  many  years  the  leader  of  its  choir.  He 
married,  at  Haverstraw,  Jane,  born  at  Middle- 
hope,  Orange  county,  New  York,  January  15, 
1828,  daughter  of  Levi  Quimby  and  Lucretia 
(Purdy)  Fowler.  Her  father  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  brick  and  a  merchant ;  he  was  burn 
December  22,  1790,  died  December  13,  1853. 
Children  of  Levi  Quimby  and  Lucretia 
(Purdy)  Fowler:  David,  died  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  November  10,  1873:  Mordecai, 
born  in  1821,  died  August  28.  1847:  Denton, 
born  December  6,  1825,  died  January  5.  1904; 
Louisa,  married  John  W.  Gilles ;  Jane,  born 
January  15,  1828,  married  Abram  DeBaun,  of 
whom  herein;  Sarah,  married  Uriah  F.  Wash- 
burn; Charlotte,  married,  October  26.  1856, 
Daniel  Q.  Lake  Children  of  Abram  and  Jane 
(Fowler)  DeBaun:  Ruth,  married  Rodney 
Winans  Milburn;  Abram  Melville,  married 
Carrie  Fort,  cousin  of  Franklin  Fort,  formerly 
governor  of  New  Jersey;  Anna,  married  Wil- 
son Perkins  Foss. 


The  name  Stoddard  is  de- 
STODDARD     rived     from    the    office    of 

standard  bearer,  and  was 
anciently  written  De  La  Standard.  The  coat- 
of-arms  is  thus  heraldically  described :  Sable 
three  estoiles  and  bordure  gules.  Crest :  Out 
a  ducal  coronet  a  demi  horse  salient,  ermine. 


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Motto:  Festina  lente.  William  Stoddard,  a 
knight,  came  from  Normandy  to  England, 
1066,  A.  1>..  with  William  the  Conqueror,  who 
was  his  cousin.  Among  his  possible  descend- 
ants appears  the  name  of  Rukard  Stoddard, 
of  Nottingham,  Kent,  near  Elthan,  about 
seven  miles  from  London  Bridge,  where  the 
family  estate  of  about  four  hundred  acres  was 
located.  This  came  into  possession  of  the 
family  in  141)0  and  continued  until  the  death 
of  Richard  Stoddard,  a  bachelor,  in  1765. 
Other  descendants  are  Thomas  Stoddard  of 
Royston ;  John  Stoddard  of  Gundon ;  William 
Stoddard  of  Royston;  Anthony  Stoddard  of 
London;  Gideon  Stoddard  of  London;  An- 
thony Stoddard  of  London,  and  William  Stod- 
dard of  London.  The  derivation  of  the  name 
Stoddard  from  the  phrase  De  La  Standard 
does  not  seem  impossible  or  very  far  fetched, 
as  the  name  is  known  under  a  variety  of 
forms,  such  as  Stodard  and  Stodart.  In 
Wethersfield  (Connecticut)  records  the  name 
frequently  appears  as  Stodder,  Stoder,  Stod- 
ker,  Studder  and  Stoddard.  John  Stoddard, 
born  about  [620,  was  an  early  settler  in 
Wethersfield,  and  was  a  juror  in  1(43.  He 
figures  in  the  court  records  both  as  plaintiff 
and  defendant.  He  married  Mary  Foote,  was 
a  well-to-do  farmer,  and  left  an  estate  of  four 
hundred  pounds.  There  may  have  been  a  con- 
nection between  the  family  of  John  Stoddard 
and  that  of  Anthony  Stoddard  of  Boston,  but 
the  links  have  not  been  found. 

(  I  )  Anthony  Stoddard,  immigrant  ancestor 
of  this  Stoddard  family,  came  from  England 
to  Boston  about  1639  He  was  admitted  a 
freeman  in  1640,  a  representative  in  1650- 
1659-1660,  and  during  twenty  successive  years 
from  1665  to  1685.  He  married  (first)  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  Honorable  Emmanuel  Down- 
ing, of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  his  wife 
Lucy,  daughter  of  George  Downing,  and  sister 
of  Sir  George,  afterwards  Lord  Downing. 
The  Honorable  Emmanuel  Downing  and  his 
wife  were  admitted  to  the  church  in  Salem, 
November  4,  1638.  Anthony  Stoddard  mar- 
ried (second)  Barbara,  widow  of  Captain  Jo- 
seph Weld  of  Roxbury;  she  died  April  15, 
1654.  He  married  ( third  ).  about  1655,  Chris- 
tian   .  He  died  March  16,  1686-1687.  Chil- 
dren by  first  marriage:  Solomon,  mentioned 
below;  Samson.  December  3,  1645;  Simeon, 
1650.  Children  by  the  second  marriage: 
Sarah,  October  21.  1652;  Stephen,  January  6, 


[654.  Children  by  the  third  marriage :  Chris- 
tian. March  22,  1657;  Anthony,  June  [6,  1658; 
Lydia,  May  2j,  1660;  Joseph,  Dei  ember  1, 
iU>i  ;  John.  April  22.  1663;  Ebenezer,  July  1, 
1664;  Dorothy,  November  24.  1665;  Mary, 
March  25,  1668;  Jane  (twin),  July  29,  1669;. 
and  Grace  (twin),  July  29,  1669;  all  horn  at 
Boston. 

(II)  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard,  eldest  son  of 
Anthony  and  Mary  (Downing)  Stoddard,  was 
born  October  4.  [643,  and  died  February  11, 
[7Z9.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  the  year 
1662  and  was  afterwards  elected  "Fellow  of 
the  House,"  and  was  first  librarian  of  the  col- 
lege, which  office  he  held  from  1667  to  1674. 
About  this  time,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he 
accompanied  the  governor  of  Massachusetts  to 
the  Barbadoes,  in  the  capacity  of  chaplain,  and 
remained  nearly  two  years,  preaching  to  the 
dissenters.  In  1669  he  received  a  call  to  the 
church  in  Northampton  ami  settled  there  as 
minister.  September  11,  1672.  In  1726  hisi 
grandson,  Jonathan  Edwards,  was  elected  his 
colleague.  Among  his  publications  are  the  fol-l 
lowing:  "The  Trial  of  Assurance,"  1696; 
"The  Doctrine  of  Instituted  Churches,"  1700, 
written  in  answer  to  the  work  of  the  Rev.  In- 
crease Mather,  entitled  "The  Order  of  thei 
Gospel,"  which  occasioned  exciting  contro- 
versy. Other  works  were  ''The  Danger  of 
Degeneracy,"  1702;  "Election  Sermon."  1703;; 
"Sermon  on  the  Lord's  Supper,"  1707;  "Ser-r 
mon,  <  Irdination  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Willard, 
Swampfield,"  170S;  "Inexcusableness  of  Ne-: 
glecting  the  Worship  of  God,"  1708;  "False- 
ness of  the  Hopes  of  Many  Professors,"  1708;'- 
"An  Appeal  to  the  Learned  on  the  Lord's  Sup-: 
per,"  1709;  "A  Plea  for  Tithes";  "Divine 
Teachings  Render  Persons  Blessed,"  1712;  "A- 
Guide  to  Christ."  1713;  three  sermons:  "Thei 
Virtue  of  Christ's  Blood,"  "Natural  Men  Un- 
der the  Government  of  Self  Love,"  "The  Gos- 
pel a  Means  of  Conversion,"  and  a  fourth.  "To 
Stir  up  Young  Men  and  Maidens."  17 17 
"Sermon  at  the  Ordination  of  Mr  Thomas 
Chenev."  1718;  "Treatise  Concerning  Conver- 
sion," 1719:  "Answer  to  Cases  of  Conscience," 
1722:  "Inquiry  whether  God  is  not  Angry 
with  this  Country,"  1723;  and  "Safetv  of  Ap- 
pearing in  Christ's  Righteousness,"  1724. 
Solomon  Stoddard  married,  March  S,  1670, 
Mrs.  Esther  Mather,  widow  of  Rev.  Eleazar 
Mather,  and  originally  Esther  Warham  of 
Windsor.  Connecticut.     She  died  February  10, 


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1736,  aged  ninety-two.  Children:  Mary,  born 
January  9,  1671  ;  Esther.  June  2,  1672;  Sam- 
uel, February  5,  1674;  Anthony,  June  6,  1675, 
died  the  following  day ;  Aaron  ( twin ) ,  August 

J23,  1676,  died  the  same  day;  Christian  (twin), 
August  2^,  1676;  Anthony,  mentioned  below; 
Sarah,   April    1,    16S0;    John,    February     17, 

J16S2;  Israel,  April  io,   1684;  Rebecca,   1686; 

(Hannah,  April  21,  1688. 

(III)  Rev.  Anthony  (2)  Stoddard,  son  of 
■Rev.  Solomon  and  Esther  (Warham-Mather) 

:  Stoddard,  was  born  August  9,  1678,  and  died 
September  6,  1760.    He  graduated  at  Harvard, 

i  1697,  and  settled  as  minister  in  Woodbury, 
Connecticut,  where  he  continued  sixty  years. 
He  married  (first)  Rev.  Stephen  Mix,  offici- 
ating, October  20,  1700,  Prudence  Wells,  of 
Wethersfield,  who  died  May,  1714.  He  mar- 
ried  (second)   January  31,  1715,  Mary  Sher- 

i  man,  who  died  January  12,  1720.  Children 
by  the  first  marriage:  Mary.  June  19,  1702; 
Solomon,  October  12,  1703:  Eliakim.  April  3, 
1705  ;  Elisha,  mentioned  below ;  Israel,  August 
7,  1708;  John,  March  2,  1710;  Prudence,  Oc- 

i  tober  12.  171 1  ;  Gideon,  May  27,  1714.  Chil- 
dren by  the  second  marriage :  Esther,  Octo- 
ber 11,  1716;  Abijah,  bom  February  28,  1718; 
Elizabeth.  November  15,  1719;  all  at  Wood- 
bury. 

(IV)  Elisha,  son  of  Rev.  Anthony  (2)  and 
Prudence  (Wells)  Stoddard,  was  born  at 
Woodbury.  Connecticut,  November  24,  1706, 
and  died  in  1766.  He  resided  at  Woodbury, 
where  also  lived  his  brother  Eliakim,  whose 
death  preceded  his  by  sixteen  years.  Elisha 
Stoddard  married  Rebecca  Sherman. 

(V)  Elisha  (2),  son  of  Elisha  (1)  and  Re- 
becca (Sherman)  Stoddard,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 4.  1735,  at  Woodbury.  Connecticut.  He 
married  Anna  Hunt,  May  29,  1760. 

(VI)  Elisha  (3).  son  of  Elisha  (2)  and 
Anna  (Hunt)  Stoddard,  was  born  Mav  I, 
1765.  and  died  February  8,  1833.  He  married 
Mary  Crane,  November  22,  1701.  She  was 
born  August  7.  1767,  and  died  September  11, 
184.S. 

(  VII)  Phineas,  son  of  Elisha  (3)  and  Mary 
(Crane)  Stoddard,  was  born  July  7.  1797.  and 
died  in  1879.  He  spent  his  younger  days  in 
Massachusetts,  and  in  early  manhood  went  to 
Greenfield.  Ulster  county.  New  York,  where 
he  assisted  his  uncle  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
After  his  marriage  in  1815  he  purchased  a 
farm  of  his  own.  where  he  followed  farming 


all  his  life,  while  engaging  in  various  other  in- 
terests. He  worked  a  good  deal  in  the  lumber 
business,  buying  and  selling  timber  property 
on  the  land  he  bought  while  clearing  it,  and 
became  a  large  land  owner  in  Sullivan  and 
Ulster  counties.  On  his  land  he  built  first  a 
log  house  of  the  old  type,  and  later  a  structure 
of  the  modern  style.  He  was  a  strong  mem- 
ber of  the  Friends  Society,  and  took  a  great 
interest  in  all  the  public  movements  of  the 
day,  though  usually  too  busily  engaged  in  his 
own  business  affairs  to  have  an  active  partici- 
pation in  them.  Mr.  Stoddard  was  a  citizen 
greatly  honored  in  the  community  in  which  he 
resided.  Courtesy  and  gentleness  were  habit- 
ual characteristics  of  his  deportment  in  the 
bosom  of  his  family  and  in  his  dealings  with 
other  men  in  the  conduct  of  his  affairs.  He 
was  a  man  of  considerable  and  varied  ability, 
but  he  put  the  larger  part  of  it  into  the  energy 
he  expended  in  building  up  a  suitable  prop- 
erty for  himself  and  his  family.  He  married, 
October  18,  1815,  Marilda  Fair,  born  October 
20,  1798,  and  died  October  30,  1848,  at  Green- 
field, Ulster  county.  New  York.  Children: 
1.  Mary  Eliza,  born  October  29,  1819,  died 
May  29,  1839.  2.  Elisha,  born  June  2,  1823; 
married,  March  2.  1844.  Mary  Frear;  chil- 
dren: i.  Mary  E.,  born  July  15,  1845.  ii. 
Phineas,  Jr.,  born  January  24,  1847,  died  in 
1882,  married  Gertrude  E.  O'Neil ;  children: 
Floyd  J.,  Nellie  Marilda,  Edith,  Lizzie  M., 
Frank  P.  3.  John  F.,  born  in  Greenfield,  New 
York,  July  20,  1825 ;  married,  October  18, 
1865,  Eliza  A.  Piatt ;  one  daughter  died  at  the 
age  of  seventeen.  He  was  noted  as  the  author 
of  Stoddard's  "Arithmetic."  4.  Perrv  C,  born 
October  30,  1827 ;  a  successful  farmer ;  mar- 
ried July  15,  1850.  Hannah  W.  Southwick; 
children:  Stephen  W.,  born  October  14,  185 1  ; 
Zadoc  S  ,  born  February  18,  1858.  married 
Dora  M.  Winters,  one  child.  Mildred  Nor- 
bury. 5.  Henry,  born  March  5,  1831,  died 
June  19,  1852;  a  teacher.  6.  Sarah,  born  Oc- 
tober 26,  1835,  at  Greenfield,  New  York ;  mar- 
ried October  23,  1856,  John  F.  Norbury,  M. 
D.,  of  New  York  City;  one  child,  Fannie  Stod- 
dard Norbury,  born  May  4.  1866.  died  Janu- 
ary 22,   1882. 


This    name    is    English    and 
WHEELER     appears  to  be  a  name  of  oc- 
cupation,    the     word     being 
equivalent  in  meaning  to  wheelwright.     It  is 


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curious  to  note  that,  reversing  the  common 
procedure,  the  name  seems  to  liave  passed 
from  England  into  Normandy,  and  the  form 
which  it  has  assumed  in  France  is  also  curious 
to  English  eyes — Houelleur.  In  England, 
county  Kent  and  Hertfordshire  have  been 
special  abodes  of  Wheelers,  and  persons  of 
this  name  haw  been  numerous  in  London  for 
the  last  four  hundred  years.  The  name  in 
England  is  sometimes  spelled  Wheler,  and  in 
this  way  it  was  spelled  in  the  early  days  in 
America.  Kent  county,  England,  is  suppo  ed 
to  be  the  place  of  origin  of  many  of  the 
American  Wheelers.  The  number  of  Ameri- 
can families  of  this  surname  was  very  great 
at  an  early  day.  Thirty  families  of  the  name 
of  Wheeler  are  said  to  have  resided  at  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  between  1050  and 
Although  Wheelers  arc  found  very  early  in 
Virginia,  and  the  name  has  been  handed  on  in 
that  state,  it  is,  in  America,  distinctively  a 
Connecticut  and  Massachusetts  name.  His- 
torically, the  best  known  of  this  name  has  been 
Major  General  Joseph  Wheeler  of  Alabama. 
the  distinguished  Confederate  cavalry  officer! 
who  was  afterward  a  patriotic  member  of  the 
house  of  representatives  of  the  reunited  coun- 
try, and  finally  was  made  an  officer  in  the 
regular  army.  Yet  his  case  does  not  even 
modify  die  statement  that  the  nam-  i-  distinct- 
ly a  New  England  name,  for  lie  was  de- 
scended from  M,,.,-  Wheeler,  who  lived  in 
the  .  olony  of  New  Haven  in  1641  ;  the  family 
has  continued  in  Connecticut,  and  General 
Wheeler's  father  was  born  in  Connecticut. 
From  about  1700  Wheelers  (with  various 
Dutch  spellings  of  the  name),  some  of  them 
marrying  Dutch  women,  and  some  of  them 
bearing  Dutch  Christian  names,  have  been 
found  in  Albany.  New  York,  but  they  were 
also  oi  Xew  England  descent.  In  the  present 
family  similarity  of  names  suggests  a  con- 
nection with  the  Fairfield  (Connecticut) 
Wheelers,  but  a  very  strong  argument  cannot 
be  built  on  this.  A  Daniel  Wheeler  was  in 
Rockland  county.  New  York,  by  the  year  1781. 

(  I  )  Isaac  Wheeler,  the  first  member  of  this 
family  about  whom  we  have  definite  informa- 
tion, was  a  Democrat,  and  his  religion  was  the 
Presbyterian.  He  married  Sarah  Remsen. 
Among  their  children  was  Aaron  Remsen  of 
whom   further. 

(  H  )  Aaron  Remsen,  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah 


(  Remsen)  Wheeler,  was  born  about  1S20,  and' 
died  about  1889.  For  many  years  he  was  a; 
steamboat  engineer.  He  long  hail  in  charge' 
the  "Isaac  P.  Smith,"  one  of  the  swiftest 
steamers  then  plying  between  New  York  City 
and  Albany.  After  giving  up  steamboat  en- 
gineering he  became,  in  iSii;,  chief  engineer 
and  master  mechanic  of  the  Hoppe  sugar  re- 
finery, at  Hastings,  Westchester  county,  New 
York.  Here  he  remained  for  about  twenty 
years;  in  1S85  he  retired,  continuing  to  live  at 
Hastings,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
nine.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  political  belief, 
and  was  also  active  in  church  and  Sunday 
school  work,  where  he  had  a  special  sphere  of 
service  and  usefulness,  by  reason  of  his  mu- 
sical ability.  He  was  a  thorough  musician, 
had  a  line  tenor  voice,  and  for  many  years  was 
leader  of  the  choir  of  the  Reformed  church  at 
Nyack,  Rockland  count)-,  Xew  York.  His 
own  denomination,  however,  was  the  Presby- 
terian. He  married,  in  Nyack,  Eliza  TayloJ 
who  was  born  at  Clarkstown,  Rockland  county,' 
New  York;  she  survived  him  several  years. 
Children:  Jacob  Taylor;  Alonzo,  of  whom 
further;  William  Francis;  ddieodore  Freling- 
huysen. 

(Ill)  Alonzo,  son  of  Aaron  Remsen  and 
Eliza  (Taylor)  Wheeler,  was  born  at  Nyack, 
April  29,  1844.  He  attended  the  public  school 
at  the  place  of  his  birth,  and  also  the  Ruther- 
ford Military  Institute  at  the  same  place.  From 
his  youth  he  was  striving  to  enter  the  legal  pro- 
fession,  and  availed   himself  of  every  means 

omplish  his  purpose,  often  under  most  1 
discouraging  circumstances.  For  a  time  he 
was  a  student  in  the  law  office  of  Van  Worst 
&  Beardsley,  at  the  corner  id"  Broadway  and 
Pine  street,  in  Xew  York  City.  Afterward  he 
studied  at  Nyack  with  Marcena  M.  Dickinson. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  from  this  office: 
December  16,  1S08,  at  the  general  term  of  the 
supreme  court,  in  Brooklyn,  Xew  York.  He 
.11  once  opened  an  office  at  Nyack,  and  soon 
went  into  partnership  with  his  preceptor,  un- 
der the  firm  name  of  Dickinson  &  Wheeler,  at 
Nyack.  This  partnership  was  dissolved  in 
[870,  and  Mr.  Wheeler  removed  to  Haver- 
straw,  Rockland  county.  Xew  York,  where  he 
began  practice  on  the  second  of  March.  Five 
years  later  he  formed  a  partnership  at  Haver- 
straw  with  Irving  Brown,  which  continued 
until  1883;  from  the  latter  year  Mr.  Wheeler 


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las  practiced  alone,  living  continuously  at 
.iaverstraw.  He  was  the  first  president  of 
he  Rockland  County  Bar  Association.  When 
Stony  Point  was  finally  dedicated  and  set  apart 
is  a  state  reservation,  and  turned  over  by  Gov- 
ernor Odell  to  the  National  Scenic  and  His- 
oric  Preservation  Society,  Mr.  Wheeler  de- 
ivered  the  address  of  welcome.  He  was  ap- 
Dointed  by  Governor  Odell  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  fifteen  "to  examine  into  the  condi- 
:ion  of  the  statutes  and  laws  of  the  state,"  of 
which  committee  Alton  Brooks  Parker  was 
:hairman.  He  is  a  member  of  Stony  Point 
Lodge,  No.  313,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  in  1876,  1877  and  iqoi  he  was  master  of 
this  lodge,  which  is  at  Haverstraw ;  he  is  also 
a  member  of  Haverstraw  Lodge,  No.  877, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  has  been  active 
in  public  affairs.  In  1878  he  was  the  inde- 
pendent candidate  for  the  district  attorneyship 
and  was  endorsed  by  the  Republican  party. 
He  was  elected  and  on  the  expiration  of  this 
term  was  re-elected  as  a  strictly  independent 
candidate,  over  the  nominees  of  both  the  par- 
ties. In  1880  and  1881  he  served  as  surrogate 
of  Rockland  county,  by  appointment  of  the 
general  term  of  the  supreme  court.  In  1896 
he  was  again  elected  district  attorney,  being  on 
this  occasion  the  Republican  nominee ;  but  he 
resigned  in  1898  and  accepted  the  office  of 
county  judge,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Black.  As  district  attorney  he  tried 
several  homicide  indictments,  and  in  four- 
fifths  of  all  criminal  cases  he  obtained  convic- 
tions. He  has  been  one  of  the  counsel  for  the 
village  of  Haverstraw.  Judge  Wheeler  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  Central  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Haverstraw.  For  many  years 
he  has  been  a  ruling  elder  and  an  active 
worker  in  the  Sunday  school.  He  married,  at 
Grassy  Point,  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
May  9,  1876,  Mary  Serena,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Fredericks) 
Wiles,  who  was  born  at  Haverstraw,  April  8, 
1856.  Her  father  was  a  manufacturer  of  brick 
machines  and  moulds.  Children  of  William 
Henry  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Fredericks) 
Wiles  :  Mary  Serena,  mentioned  above  ;  John 
Jacob.  Frederick  J.,  Lydia  A.,  Martha  L., 
Frank  E.,  Emma  L.  Children  of  Alonzo  and 
Mary  Serena  (Wiles)  Wheeler:  Jeanie  Suf- 
fern,  Jessie  Louise,  Ethel  May. 


Like  most  of  the  old  Dutch 
TALLMAN  names  founded  at  New  Am- 
sterdam and  now  located  in 
many  sections  of  the  state,  this  was  adopted 
some  time  after  the  location  of  the  family  in 
this  country,  and  its  origin  is  hidden  in  the 
mysteries  of  early  days.  The  family  is  today 
conspicuous  in  northern  New  Jersey  and 
southern  New  York,  and  is  contributing  to  the 
progress  and  development  of  the  nation.  The 
name  appears  on  the  church  records  of  New 
York,  Hackensack  and  Tappan  as  Taelman, 
Talema,  Taelma  and  Tallman.  The  last  form 
has  been  adopted  generally  by  recent  genera- 
tions. 

(I)  The  first  of  this  family  of  whom  any 
definite  knowledge  can  be  obtained  was  Har- 
man  Douwenszen,  who  was  early  in  what  is 
now  New  York  City,  and  probably  came  with 
his  children  to  the  new  world  when  he  was 
well  advanced  in  life.  It  is  apparent  from  his 
name  that  his  father's  Christian  name  was 
Douwe ;  beyond  that  it  is  impossible  at  this 
time  to  learn  anything. 

(II)  Douwe  Harmsen  (Harmanszen,  etc.), 
born  about  1625,  in  the  province  of  Friesland, 
Holland,  came  in  the  ship  "Brown  Fish,"  in 
June,  1658,  with  his  wife,  Dierckje  Theunis, 
and  four  children  to  New  Amsterdam.  After 
his  arrival  he  had  baptized  in  New  York,  Jan- 
netie,   February  5,    1662;  Anthony,   February 

8,  1665  ;  Douwen,  September  29,  1669.  About 
167 1  he  settled  at  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  and  at 
the  same  time  was  owner  of  a  patent  at  Nyack 
in  what  is  now  Rockland  county,  New  York. 
He  died  at  Bergen,  March  25,   1678,  or  May 

9,  1678,  according  to  one  authority.  Another 
authority  states  that  he  was  buried  at  Bergen, 
June  19,  1687,  being  the  eleventh  buried  in 
the  church  and  the  thirty-fifth  in  the  "Pall," 
showing  that  his  funeral  was  among  the  most 
costly  at  that  time.  His  sons,  Theunis  and 
Douwe,  removed  to  Nyack  after  his  death  and 
were  the  progenitors  of  all  the  name  in  Rock- 
land and  Bergen  counties.  They  received  his 
property  in  Bergen  by  will  and  sold  it  in  1705. 

(III)  Theunis  Douwese  Talema,  son  of 
Douwe  and  Dierckje  (Theunis)  Harmsen, 
may  have  been  born  about  1672  at  Bergen,  and 
resided  at  Nyack  until  his  death,  July  17,  1739. 
He  was  the  first  high  sheriff  of  Orange  county, 
which  then  included  the  present  Rockland 
county,  New  York,  serving  as  such  until  1702, 
and  owned  about  thirty-six  hundred  acres  of 


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land  at  Nyack.  He  married  (first),  in  [694, 
Breehtje  Haring,  and  had  children:  Dirck, 
born  April  11,  1695;  Grietje,  January  13, 
1697;  Dierckje,  April  13.  1700;  Douwe,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1703;  Marytie.  April  17,  1706; 
Breckje,  Harman  and  Jan  (triplets),  January 
12.  i/ix),  all  baptized  at  Tappan.  He  married 
(second)  January  11,  1710,  Margritie  Hogan- 
kamp,  born  in  New  York,  and  they  had  chil- 
dren baptized  at  Tappan;  Brechie,  born  July  6, 
1711;  Jannetie,  August  30,  1712;  Theunis, 
September  16,  1714;  Harne,  November  25, 
1716;  Antje. 

(IV)  Jan  Tallman.  son  of  Theunis  Douwese 
and  Breehtje  (Haring)  Talema,  was  born 
January  12,  1709,  at  Nyack,  and  resided  in 
(Jrangetown,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
where  he  was  a  farmer,  described  in  the  rec- 
ords as  a  yeoman.  lie  married,  about  1735, 
Helena  Blauvelt,  born  June  2J,  171 5,  and  bap- 
tized on  the  twenty-eighth  of  the  same  month, 
daughter  of  Garret  and  Marytie  (  Krom) 
Blauvelt,  Children:  Theunis,  burn  May  22, 
1737:  Gerret,  November  23,  1740;  Breckje, 
October  X,  1745;  Jan,  mentioned  below. 

I  V  )  Jan  (  2  ).  youngest  son  of  Jan  (  1  )  and 
Helena  (Blauvelt)  Tallman,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1 75 1,  in  Orangetown,  died  February 
7.  [839,  at  Tallman's.  in  the  town  of  Ramapo, 
same  county,  his  body  being  deposited  in  Sad- 
dle River  cemetery.  He  resided  at  Greenbush. 
a  small  settlement  near  Tappan,  during  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  afterwards  settled  at 
what  is  now  called  Tallman's,  a  station  on  the 
Erie  railroad,  and  by  occupation  was  a  farmer. 
During  the  revolutionary  war  he  was  a  scout 
in  the  service  of  the  American  army  and  a 
reward  of  thirty-five  guineas  was  offered  by 
the  British  authorities  for  his  capture.  He  is 
recorded  as  a  private  soldier  in  Captain  Wil- 
liam Sickel's  company,  belonging  to  the 
Orange  County  Regiment,  from  the  Haver- 
straw  precinct,  under  the  command  of  Colonel 
A.  H.  Hay.  This  was  a  portion  of  the  New 
York  state  militia  which  was  employed  in  ac- 
tive service  during  the  war.  He  received  a 
commission  from  Governor  George  Clinton, 
dated  September  28,  1786,  as  ensign.  No.  2, 
in  Captain  Cornelius  J.  Blauvelt's  company  of 
the  corps  of  state  militia  of  the  precinct  of 
Tappan.  Jan,  or  John  Tallman,  purchased  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  acres,  re- 
ceiving a  deed  March  2^,  1797,  at  Tallman's. 
for  which  he  paid  one  thousand  five  hundred 


and  twenty-five  pounds.  Immediately  he 
erected  thereon  a  dwelling  house,  which  is  still  1 
standing.  The  homestead  farm  and  house  arc 
now  in  the  possession  of  two  of  his  lineal  de- 
scendants, James  Cornell  Tallman  and  Mrs. 
Harry  Sutherland.  At  the  time  of  this  pur- 
chase the  neighborhood  was  known  as  Masoni- 
cus.  and  the  new  name  Tallman's  was  prob- 
ably received  on  his  locating  there.  He  was 
the  progenitor  of  all  bearing  the  name  now  liv- 
ing in  that  vicinity.  He  married  Frinckye 
(  Fanny  1  Mabie,  born  March  2J,  1757.  bap- 
tized April  2,  of  the  same  year,  at  Tappan, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Maria  (Van  Are- 
lant )  Mabie,  and  granddaughter  of  Peter  and 
Callyntie  (  Bogart )  Mabie.  Children  :  Brid- 
get, born  August  9,  1778:  Mary,  February  13, 
1781  :  John,  (  )ctober  16.  1783;  Tunis,  May  17, 
1790;  Abraham  J.,  mentioned  below. 

(  VI)  Abraham  J.,  youngest  son  of  Jan  (2) 
I  John  1  and  Fanny  (  Mabie)  Tallman.  was 
born  July  14.  1793,  at  Tallman's,  and  died 
there  June  4,  1884.  He  lived  in  the  house  built 
by  his  father,  and  like  him  was  a  farmer. 
September  3,  18 14,  he  was  appointed  a  cor- 
poral in  the  Fifth  Company,  Eighty-third 
Regiment,  Twenty-Ninth  Brigade  of  the  In- 
fantry Militia  of  the  State  of  New  York,  un- 
der Lieutenant  Colonel  G.  A.  Blauvelt.  He 
married.  September  14,  1814,  Maria  Deronde, 
born  February  18,  1794.  died  April  3,  1878,  at! 
Tallman's.  daughter  of  Henry  and  Heleche 
(  Van  Nostrand  )  Deronde.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  John  Abraham,  mentioned  below. 

(  VII )  John  Abraham,  only  son  of  Abraham 
J.  and  Maria  ( Deronde )  Tallman,  was  born 
May  16,  1815,  at  Tallman's,  and  died  there 
April  1 6,  1888.  He  was  a  farmer  and  drover. r 
He  married.  December  8,  1842,  Caroline  Conk-> 
lin,  born  March  26,  1824,  died  June  15,  1886, 
at  Tallman's.  daughter  of  William  and  Ann 
(Wilson)  Conklin.  William  Conklin  was  a 
son  of  William  Conklin,  born  February  21, 
1 75 1,  who  resided  at  Tappan,  where  he  died 
May  19,  1825,  being  a  tailor  and  farmer  by. 
occupation.  He  married,  in  1773,  Elizabeth 
Hunt,  of  Hunt's  Point  on  Long  Island,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  Margaret,  William, 
Mary,  Ann,  Abraham,  John,  David,  Elizabeth, 
Benjamin,  Rachel.  William  (2)  Conklin,  born 
August  2~,  1775,  was  a  farmer  at  Ramsey's, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  died  October  25,  1859. 
He  married,  July  4.  1802,  at  New  Prospect, 
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October  12,  1870,  at  Ramsey's,  New  Jersey, 
laughter  of  Albert  Wilson,  born  February  14, 
755,  at  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  and  died 
November  13,  1834.  His  wife,  Mary,  died 
September  18,  1818.  Ann,  their  fourth 
laughter,  became  the  wife  of  William  Conklin, 
lS  above  noted.  Children  of  John  A.  Tallman : 
ohn  Harvey,  born  October  3,  1843;  Abram, 
nentioned  below;  William  Henry,  February 
15,  1851  ;  Anna  Maria,  February  23,  1855; 
ames  Cornell,  March  29,  i860;  Caroline 
^ouise,  May  16,  1866. 

(VIII)  Abram,  second  son  of  John  Abra- 
1am  and  Caroline  (Conklin)  Tallman,  was 
10m  May  6,  1846,  at  Tallman's.  He  resided 
.t  Englewood,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  a 
arpenter  and  builder.  His  early  life  was 
pent  on  the  paternal  farm  at  Tallman's,  and 
le  attended  school  at  Suffern,  New  York.  In 
862,  when  sixteen  years  old,  he  taught  school 
or  a  few  months  at  Tallman's.  his  first  ven- 
ure  in  life  on  his  own  account.  In  1863  and 
864  he  was  employed  in  a  photograph  gallery 
n  New  York  City,  but  this  work  proved  in- 
urious  to  his  health,  and  he  returned  to  his 
lative  place  and  spent  six  months  on  the  farm, 
following  this  he  was  employed  for  two  years 
n  the  shops  of  the  Erie  Railroad  Company  at 
iamapo,  where  he  learned  the  building  trade. 
Afterwards  he  worked  as  a  carpenter  in  Suf- 
ern  and  Middletown,  New  York,  and  Pater- 
on,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1867  settled  in  Engle- 
vood,  New  Jersey,  where  for  many  years  he 
vas  engaged  in  business  as  a  builder,  con- 
tructing  many  of  the  finest  residences  in  the 
ity.  He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
n  the  welfare  of  Englewood  and  saw  it  grow 
rom  a  village  of  about  fifteen  hundred  peo- 
)le,  when  he  settled  there,  to  nearly  two  thou- 
and  inhabitants  in  1913.  From  1889  to  1893 
ie  was  a  member  of  the  township  committee, 
ind  was  also  a  member  of  the  citizen's  com- 
nittee  formed  in  1895,  t0  promote  the  move- 
nent  for  the  incorporation  of  the  city,  and 
vhen  this  was  accomplished  in  the  following 
'ear  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  first  com- 
non  council,  and  served  as  chairman  of  that 
>ody  from  1896  to  1898.  He  was  regarded  as 
1  faithful  municipal  officer,  who  gave  strict 
egard  to  the  public  interest  in  the  perform- 
ince  of  his  duties.  Since  his  retirement  from 
ictive  business,  several  years  ago,  Mr.  Tallman 
las  devoted  his  attention  to  the  development 
if  his  real  estate  interests  in  Englewood,  being 


the  owner  of  several  acres  of  land,  upon  which 
he  has  erected  a  number  of  houses,  and 
through  which  a  street  has  been  opened,  which 
has  been  named  Tallman  Place  by  the  Engle- 
wood common  council  in  recognition  of  his 
services  to  the  community.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 2~,  1870,  at  Englewood,  New  Jersey, 
Maria  Zabriskie,  born  February  26,  1849,  near 
New  Milford,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Effie  (De- 
marest)  Zabriskie.  descended  from  one  of  the 
oldest  families  of  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey 
(see  Zabriskie  VII).  Children:  Abram  Zab- 
riskie, born  April  3,  1872;  William,  mentioned 
below;  Margaretta,  December  20,  1877;  John, 
February  1,  1885.  died  April  20,  1893:  James 
Albert,  March   19,  1892. 

(IX)  William,  second  child  of  Abram  and 
Maria  (Zabriskie)  Tallman,  was  born  March 
3.  1875,  in  Englewood,  New  Jersey.  He 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  of  that 
city  in  189 1.  Following  this  he  graduated 
from  Drake's  Business  College  of  Jersey  City, 
in  1892,  and  entering  the  New  York  Law 
School  was  graduated  in  1897  with  the  de- 
gree of  LL.B.,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  the  same  year  in  New  York  City.  From 
1897  t0  1902  he  practiced  law  in  New  York 
City.  On  November  12,  1912,  Mr.  Tallman 
was  appointed  by  the  four  judges  of  the 
United  States  district  court  for  the  southern 
district  of  New  York  in  New  York  City,  first 
deputy  clerk  of  that  court,  which  position  he 
now  holds.  He  is  also  a  standing  examiner  in 
equity  and  has  served  as  special  commissioner 
in  bankruptcy  of  that  court.  He  is  a  past  mas- 
ter and  also  historian  of  Tuscan  Lodge,  No. 
115,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Engle- 
wood; a  thirty-second  degree  and  Royal  Arch 
Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  City  Club 
of  Englewood,  of  which  he  is  historian,  and 
has  served  several  times  as  a  member  of  its 
executive  committee.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  shade  tree  committee  of  the  City  Club  of 
Englewood  and  one  of  the  organizers  and  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  Shade  Tree  Fed- 
eration of  New  Jersey.  In  this  connection  he 
has  been  active  in  movements  leading  to  the 
preservation  of  shade  trees  in  Englewood. 

He  married,  August  8,  1907,  in  Whitehall, 
New  York,  Isabelle  Jean  Sleight,  born  Janu- 
ary 3,  1876,  in  Dresden,  Washington  county. 
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(  Stuart )  Sleight.  David  Sleight  came  from 
Northumberlandshire,  England,  about  i860, 
and  was  a  prominent  farmer  of  Dresden. 
(The  Zabriskie  Line.) 
John  Sobieski,  John  III.,  king  of  Poland, 
1674-96,  was  one  of  the  greatest  warriors  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  His  father,  James 
Sobieski,  castillion  of  Cracow,  was  a  man  of 
virtuous  character,  and  in  behalf  of  his  fellow 
countrymen  he  developed  a  warlike  spirit 
which  secured  to  him  the  throne  of  Poland. 
He  brought  up  his  sons,  Mark  and  John,  born 
between  1O24  and  1629,  with  the  utmost  care, 
and  they  completed  their  education  by  travel 
and  observation  in  France,  England,  Germany 
and  Italy.  On  the  death  of  their  father,  in 
1648,  they  were  recalled  home,  and  after  the 
defeat  of  the  Polish  army  by  the  Russians  in 
the  battle  of  Pilawieez,  the  brothers  Sobieski 
took  up  arms  to  restore  the  fortunes  of  their 
countrymen,  and  Mark  fell  in  the  battle  on 
the  banks  of  the  Bog.  This  spurred  John  to 
greater  valor,  and  he  became  the  admiration 
of  the  Poles  and  the  dread  of  the  Tartans  and 
Cossacks.  He  received  the  highest  military 
rank  in  the  army,  and  on  November  11,  1673, 
in  the  great  battle  of  Choezin,  he  defeated  the 
Turks,  who  left  twenty-eight  thousand  men 
dead  and  wounded  on  the  battlefield.  This  led 
to  his  unanimous  election  of  king  of  Poland, 
May  21,  1674,  and  he  was  crowned  at  Cracow. 
In  [683  the  Turks  beseiged  Vienna,  and  King 
John  III  ,  with  twenty  thousand  Poles,  aided 
by  the  German  auxiliary,  raised  the  siege  by 
the  victory  of  September  12,  1683,  in  which 
battle  he  took  the  banner  of  Mohammed  and 
sent  it  as  a  trophy  to  the  pope.  His  entry  into 
Vienna  was  that  of  a  conqueror,  and  the  citi- 
zen- of  the  besieged  city  showed  every  demon- 
stration of  joy  and  thanksgiving  their  ingenu- 
ity could  devise  or  their  glad  hearts  express. 
John  Sobieski  was  not  only  a  warrior  and 
ruler,  but  a  lover  of  science  and  a  man  of 
gentle  disposition  and  agreeable  manner.  His 
constant  wars  did  not  allow  him,  however,  to 
attend  to  the  industrial  needs  of  the  citizens  at 
home,  and  the  want  of  such  fostering  care 
hastened  the  downfall  of  Poland.  He  died  of 
apoplexy  June  17,  1696.  His  ancestors  had 
been  for  two  centuries  Palatine  nobles  of  Po- 
land and  famous  soldiers  and  statesmen.  It 
is  from  such  ancestors  with  such  records  of 
military  and  executive  greatness  that  the  Zab- 
riskies  of  New  Tersey  and  New  York  are  de- 


scended, and  the  cognomen  has,  through  the 
German,  Holland  and  English  spellings, 
evolved  from  Zobrieski,  Saboroweski,  So- 
brisco,  Zabrioski  to  Zabriskie. 

(I)  Albert  Saboriski,  son  of  a  brother  of 
James  Sobieski,  and  cousin  of  King  John  III., 
of  Poland,  who,  like  his  nephew,  was  a  fa- 
mous soldier,  was  born  in  Zolkwa,  Poland 
(or  Enghsburg,  Prussia),  probably  in  1638. 
He  was  given  a  liberal  education,  being  sent 
by  his  father  to  Amsterdam,  Holland,  with 
the  hope  that  he  would  enter  the  ministry,  and 
he  directed  his  studies  to  that  end  for  a  time, 
but  the  preparation  proved  distasteful  and  he 
abandoned  theology ;  subsequently  he  was 
pressed  into  the  Prussian  army.  To  fight  for 
the  old  enemy  of  Poland  was  far  more  dis- 
tasteful, and  he  determined  to  seek  his  for- 
tune in  the  new  world  and  join  his  friends 
who  had  gone  from  Upper  Palatinate  to  New 
Amsterdam  and  made  homes  there  and  in  New 
Jersey.  He  took  passage  in  the  Dutch  ship 
"D'Vos"  (the  "Fox"),  Captain  Jacob  Hansz 
Huys,  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  31, 
1662,  and  landed  in  New  Amsterdam,  where 
he  lived  for  ten  or  more  years  without  set- 
tling in  any  one  place  or  engaging  in  any  set- 
tled business.  We  find  him  in  Bergen  (now 
Jersey  City)  about  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
which  is  registered  in  the  books  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  of  Bergen,  December  17, 
1676,  and  the  marriage  certificate  recorded  as 
issued  January  8,  1677.  He  married  Mach-I 
telt  (Matilda),  daughter  of  Joost  Van  den 
Linde,  whose  brother,  Roloff  Van  der  Linde. 
became  one  of  the  largest  land  holders  in  Ber- 
gen. Upon  his  marriage  he  took  title  to  a 
tract  of  land,  patent  20,  21,  22.  In  1682  ht< 
obtained  patents  from  Lady  Carteret  of  sev-< 
eral  adjacent  tracts,  thus  extending  his  estate' 
from  the  Hudson  river  on  the  east  to  thet 
Hackensack  river  on  the  west.  The  Indiansi 
also  bargained  with  him  for  land  at  Tappan. 
higher  up  the  river,  which,  in  1702,  he  nomin- 
ally exchanged  for  twenty-one  hundred  acre?' 
owned  by  the  Indians  adjoining  his  original 
purchases,  and  this  second  purchase  became 
known  as  the  New  Paramus  Patent.  (See- 
map  of  Perth  Amboy.)  He  erected  a  house 
at  Old  Ackensack  (  now  near  Ridgefield  Park) 
and  his  eldest  sons.  Jacob  and" Jan  (John) 
and  probably  all  his  children,  were  born  there 
He  helped  to  organize  the  church  on  the  greer 
at  <  )ld  Hackensack  in   1696,  his  name  appear 


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ng  on  stone  in  present  church  wall,  and  was 
:he  leading  member  and  supporter  of  that 
phurch  for  over  twenty-five  years.  He  was 
ilso  the  first  justice  of  the  peace  of  Upper 
Bergen  county  (his  original  signature  appear- 

I'  ng  on  deed  held  by  Wesley  Van  Emburgh  of 
Ridgewood,  New  Jersey),  his  commission 
laving  been  signed  by  Governor  Hamilton  in 
1682.  He  died  in  Hackensack,  and  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  buried  there  September 
11,  171 1,  according  to  the  record  of  the  Luth- 
jeran  churches  in  and  about  New  York,  and 
jnis  age  is  stated  as  between  seventy-two  and 
J  seventy-three  years.  His  widow,  born  in  1656, 
•died  in  1725.  In  the  record  of  his  death  his 
J  name  is  written  "Albert  Saboriski." 

Children  of  Albert  and  Matilda   ( Van  der 
?  Linde)  Saboriski,  born  in  or  near  Hackensack, 
1  Bergen    county.    New   Jersey:      1.    Jacob   A., 
April  12,  1679.    2.  Jan  (John),  born  in  Hack- 
tensack,  about   1682;  married   (first)    Septem- 
Iber    20.    1706,    Elizabeth    Cloes    Romeyn.    of 
iGravesend,    Long    Island,    New    York,    born 
',1683,  died  in  Hackensack,  in  1712;  he  married 
|;(second)    December  6.   1712,  Marguaretta  du 
Rij   (Durie),  and  lived  on  the  old  homestead 
facing  the  green  alongside  the  church  in  Hack- 
ensack, which  he  inherited,  and  besides  being 
a  farmer  he  was  active  in  public  affairs ;  he 
had  four  children  by  his  first  wife  and  nine 
by   his    second.      3.    Yost.     4.    Christian.      5. 
Hendrick.     There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family 
that  Jacob  A.,  eldest  son  of  Albert,  was  stolen 
!  by  the  Indian  sachem  when  seven  years  old  and 
carried  to  the  Indian  village  nearby,  and  that 
fsome  time  elapsed  before  his  whereabouts  be- 
came known.     As  his  father  was  a  true  friend 
I  to  the  Indians,  the  sachem  at  last  disclosed  the 
secret  of  taking  the  child,  and  he  expressed 
the  wish  that  he  be  allowed  to  keep  the  boy 
until    he    became    versed    in    the    Indian    lan- 
guage, that  he  might  be  able  to  maintain  the 
friendship  established  by  the  father,  and  like 
him,   act  as  an   arbitrator  and   interpreter  in 
any  trouble  that  might  come  up  between  the 
Indians  and  their  white  neighbors.     The  boy 
consented   and   when  he  had  returned  to  his 
father"s  home  he  had  acquired  the  language, 
and  his  friendship  for  the  Indians  was  a  fixed 
principle  of  his  life.     The  tradition  adds  that 
in   consideration    of   allowing   the   boy   to   re- 
main, the  second  grant  of  Upper  Paramus  was 
secured.      The    fact,    however,    remained   that 
valuable    merchandise,    wampum    and    money 


was  paid  the  Indians  by  Albert  Saboriski  for 
the  land. 

(II)  Christian  Zabriskie,  fourth  son  of  Al- 
bert and  Machtelt  or  Matilda  (Van  der  Linde) 
Saboriski,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  Upper 
Bergen,  New  Jersey,  was  baptized  in  the 
church  at  Hackensack,  Upper  Bergen,  July  3, 
1696,  and  died  1774.  He  married,  May  28, 
1714,  Lea  Hendricksje  Hoope  (Hooper).  He 
lived  in  Lower  Paramus,  and  was  received  in 
the  church  at  Hackensack,  as  a  member,  July 
13,  1723,  when  he  appears  to  have  spelled  his 
name  "Zabbroski."  He  was  probably  a  far- 
mer, as  his  father  had  large  estates  in  New 
Jersey,  which  afforded  the  best  of  land  for 
carrying  on  the  business  of  cultivating  the  soil, 
and  in  fact  the  early  Hollanders  and  Palatin- 
ates were  farmers  and  both  men  and  women 
were  accustomed  to  working  in  the  fields,  and 
the  women  universally  were  the  chief  depen- 
dence in  milking  and  caring  for  the  butter  and 
cheese.  Children  of  Christian  and  Lea  Hen- 
dricksje (Hooper)  Zabriskie,  born  in  Lower 
Paramus.  New  Jersey:  1.  Albert,  baptized 
September  2,  1716;  married,  October  26,  1739, 
Aeltje,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Aeltje 
(VanLeer)  Ackerman ;  her  parents  removed 
from  New  York  City  to  Bergen,  New  Jersey, 
in  1694,  and  settled  on  a  large  tract  of  land 
lying  between  the  Hackensack  and  Saddle 
rivers  in  Bergen  county.  (The  chart  of  the 
Zabriskies,  prepared  by  Chandler  Zabriskie 
gives  Tjilletji  Ackerman  to  this  Albert :  but  the 
record  of  baptism  of  Jacob,  son  of  Tjilletji, 
has  the  father's  name  "Albert  Hen."  and  not 
"Albert  Christ."  She  must  therefore  have 
been  the  wife  of  Albert,  son  of  Henry  and 
Gertrude  H.  (Hooper)  Zabriskie.  2.  Hen- 
drick, baptized  May  22,  1718.  3.  Jacob,  bap- 
tized January  22,  1721  ;  died  young.  4.  Jacob, 
baptized  January  20,  1725;  married,  August 
7.  1747,  Lena  Ackerman.  5.  Andries,  men- 
tioned below. 

(III)  Andries  (Andrew),  fifth  son  and 
youngest  child  of  Christian  and  Lea  Hen- 
dricksje (Hooper)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Lower  Paramus,  January  3.  1729,  according 
to  records  of  the  Schraalenburg  church.  He 
was  a  farmer.  He  married,  in  1750.  Eliza- 
beth Ackerman,  of  Paramus:  1.  Christian  A., 
born  in  Paramus,  and  baptized  in  the  church 
there.  February  24,  1751.  2.  John  A.,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Jane,  January  1,  1761  ;  mar- 
ried Corponas  Bogert ;  children :  Cornelius  C. 


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Bogert,  Elizabeth  Bogert,  who  married   Will- 
iam Pell  and  had  six  children. 

(IV)  John  A.,  son  of  Andrew  and  Eliza- 
beth (Ackerman)  Zabriskie,  was  horn  about 
1752  in  Lower  Paramus,  and  died  in  1824. 
He  was  a  farmer,  residing  on  the  west  side 
of  the  road  in  what  was  known  as  the  Flats, 
near  New  Milford,  New  Jersey,  lie  married 
Christina  Zabriskie,  born  November  5,  1752, 
died  January  13,  [831.  They  had  sons.  John 
and   I  lenry  J. 

(V)  Henry  J.,  son  of  John  and  Christina 
Zabriskie,  was  born  January  29,  17K7,  at  the 
Flats,  where  he  lived,  engaged  in  farming  until 
his  death,  January  7,  t86l.  He  married, 
March  9,  1811,  Anna  Sickels,  born  November 
15,  171)0,  died  February  iS,  1876,  daughter  of 
William  N.  and  Elizabeth  Sickels  of  Sickel- 
town,  Rockland  county.  New  York.  They  had 
sons,  John  II.  and  William  Henry. 

1  VI)  William  Henry,  son  of  Henry  J.  and 
Anna  (Sickels)  Zabriskie,  was  born  August 
9,  [820,  .it  the  Flats,  where  lie  lived  until  his 
death,  December  6,  [859.  lie  was  an  exten- 
sive dealer  in  timber  and  also  a  farmer.  He 
married,  November  3,  1841,  at  Schraalenburg, 
Effie  Demarest,  born  September  7,  [821,  ,u 
Schraalenburg,  died  July  2.  [860,  at  the  Flats, 
daughter  of  Abraham  J.  and  Rachael  (  Blau- 
velt  )  Demarest,  of  Schraalenburg.  Children: 
Henry,  Eliza,  Ann,  Rachel,  Maria,  Abraham, 
Margareta,  Euphemia. 

(VII)  Maria,  third  daughter  of  William 
Henry  and  Effie  (Demarest)  Zabriskie,  born 
February  26,  [849,  in  New  Milford,  became  the 
wife  of  Abram  Tallman  (see  Tallman  Will). 


There  were  numerous  immigrants 
PECK  of  this  name  in  the  early  days  of 
Connecticut,  and  Massachusetts. 
and  their  progeny  is  now  widely  scattered 
throughout  the  nation.  The  first  in  America 
of  the  line  traced  below  was  a  direct  descend- 
ant in  the  twenty-first  generation  of  John 
Peck,  of  Belton,  Yorkshire,  England.  This 
family  is  often  referred  to  as  the  "Massachu- 
setts Pecks,"  to  distinguish  it  from  descend- 
ants of  settlers  at  Hartford  and  New  Haven, 
Connecticut.  They  have  been  distinguished 
for  their  sound  sense  anil  keen  business  abil- 
ity, ami  are  nearly  always  found  in  good  finan- 
cial circumstances. 

(I)    Joseph    Peck   was   the    son   of    Robert. 
born    154(1.    died    151)3.    and    Helen    (Babbs) 


Peck,  of  Beccles,  Suffolk  county,  England, 
and  was  baptized  there  April  30,  1587.  He 
settled  in  Hingham,  Norfolk  county,  England, 
and  in  1638  he  and  other  Puritans,  with  his 
brother,  Robert  Peck,  their  pastor,  tied  from 
the  persecutions  of  the  church  to  this  country. 
They  came  in  the  ship  "Diligent,"  and  settled 
in  Hingham.  Massachusetts,  where  Joseph 
Peck  received  a  grant  of  land  in  [638.  He 
remained  there  about  seven  years,  and  was 
justice  of  the  peace,  assessor,  selectman,  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  four  terms.  In 
1641  he  became  one  of  the  principal  purchas- 
ers of  that  tract  of  land  called  by  them 
Seekonk,  afterwards  incorporated  as  Reho- 
both,  and  removed  there  in  1645.  and  became 
one  of  its  prominent  men,  as  well  as  one  of  its 
wealthiest.  He  died  December  23,  1663.  He 
married  (  first  1  in  Hingham.  England,  May  21, 
1 1  n 7.  Rebecca  Clark,  who  died  and  was  buried 
there,  (  >ctober  24.  1637.  The  name  of  his 
second  wife  is  unknown.  The  marriage  was 
probably  in  another  parish,  wdiere  the  records 
were  not  preserved.  The  records  of  the  town 
clerk  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  show  that 
"Mr.  Joseph  Peck,  his  wife,  three  sons  and 
a  daughter  settled  there."  so  it  is  known  he 
married  a  second  time  before  leaving  Eng- 
land. His  children  were:  Anna,  baptized  in 
Hingham,  England.  March  12.  1618,  buried 
there,    July    2~,     [636;    Rebecca,    baptized    in 

Hingham,     May     25,     1620,     married     

Hubbert  :  Joseph,  August  23,  1623;  John,  bap- 
tized about  [626;  Nicholas,  mentioned  be- 
low; Samuel,  baptized  in  Hingham,  Massa- 
chusetts, February  3,  [639;  Nathaniel,  <  )cto- 
ber  31,   1(141  :  Israel,  March  4,  1644. 

(II)  Nicholas,  third  son  of  Joseph  Peck, 
was  baptized  April  9,  [630,  in  Hingham.  Eng- 
land, and  was  about  eight  years  of  age  when 
he  came  with  his  parents  to  America.  He  set- 
tled in  the  southeastern  part  of  Seekonk,  and 
there  died  May  2J.  1710.  He  was  often  one 
of  the  raters,  or  assessors,  and  selectmen  of 
the  town.  In  [669  he  was  elected  deputy  to 
the  general  court,  and  also  served  from  1677 
to  1690,  with  exception  of  1687-8,  when  the 
town  elected  no  representative.  From  1677  t0 
1684  lie-  is  called  Ensign  Nicholas  Peck,  later 
lieutenant,  and  finally  captain.  He  married, 
about  1655,  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Alexan- 
der Winchester.  He  had  a  second  wife,  Re- 
becca, who  died  November  2,  1704.  Children: 
Joseph,  born  October  2j,  1656;  John.  August 


ELISHA    PECK 
Resident    of    Rockland    Count' 


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!,  1660;  Hezekiah,  April  1,  1662;  Mary,  Sep- 
ember  15,  1664;  Jonathan,  November  5,  1666; 
Nicholas,  June  6,  1669 ;  Elisha,  mentioned  be- 
o\v. 

(III)  Elisha,  youngest  child  of  Nicholas 
Liul  Mary  (Winchester)  Peck,  was  born 
\pril  11,  1673,  in  Rehoboth,  and  resided  for 
1  time  on  the  homestead  there,  and  subse- 
[uently  in  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  and 
Providence,  Rhode  Island.  He  removed  from 
Rehoboth  to  Attleboro  about  1718.  He  mar- 
led, December  24,  1703,  in  Rehoboth,  Martha 
_ake,  "both  of  Rehoboth."  Children : 
vlartha,  died  young;  Joel,  born  June  I,  1707; 
erusha,  January  1,  1709;  Eunice,  March  12, 
711;  Inspection,  March  22.  1713 :  Constan- 
ine,  mentioned  below;  Martha,  April  8,  17 1 7 ; 
Nicholas,  April  30,  1719;  Mary,  August  31, 
724;  Elijah,  September  7,  1729.  All  except 
he  last  two  are  recorded  in  Rehoboth,  and 
he  last  three  in  Attleboro. 

(IV)  Constantine,  second  son  of  Elisha  and 
vlartha  (Lake)  Peck,  was  born  May  26,  171 5. 
n  Rehoboth,  and  resided  for  a  time  in  that 
own,  later  removing  to  Providence.  He  mar- 
ied  Priscilla  Peck,  of  that  town.  Children : 
oel,  born  September  1,  1735;  Susannah,  May 
3,  1738;  Benoni,  November  25,  1739;  Abra- 
lam.  May  30,  1742;  Inspection,  July  6.  1745: 
Nicholas,  October  2,  1746;  Elisha,  mentioned 
>elow;  Eleazer,  March  7.  1750:  Martha,  Au- 
gust 8,  1752;  Abiah,  December  18,  1755; 
vfary,  May  19,  1758;  Gershom,  July  20.  1760; 
^.nne,  January  10,  1762. 

(V)  Elisha  (2),  sixth  son  of  Constantine 
tnd  Priscilla  (Peck)  Peck,  was  born  Novem- 
>er  25,  1747.     He  resided  for  a  time  in  Pro- 

idence ;  soon  after  1773  he  settled  in  Lenox. 
Vlassachusetts,  where  he  was  a  farmer.  He 
inarried.  in  Providence,  March  11,  1773.  Free- 
ove  Knight,  of  Cranston,  Rhode  Island.  No 
ecord  of  children  is  available  beyond  that 
urni^hed  by  the  family  records. 

( VI  )  Elisha  (3).  son  of  Elisha  (21  and 
"reelove  (Knight)  Peck,  was  born  March  4. 
789,  in  Lenox,  and  died  in  1851,  at  his  resi- 
lence  on  Fourth  street.  New  York  City.  He 
vas  reared  upon  the  farm,  and  early  in  life 
vent  to  Berlin,  Connecticut,  where  he  became 
nterested  in  the  manufacture  of  metal  ware, 
^ater  he  removed  to  New  York  City  and  there 
termed  an  association  with  Anson  G.  Phelps, 
)  inder  the  firm  name  of  Peck  &  Phelps,  for 
lealing  in  metals.     He  immediatelv  proceeded 


to  Liverpool,  where  he  opened  a  foreign 
branch  of  the  business  and  continued  four- 
teen years.  In  August,  1830,  he  returned  to 
America,  bringing  with  him  the  machinery  for 
a  rolling  mill.  Mr.  Phelps  had  already  pur- 
chased land  and  a  water  privilege  on  Minis- 
ceongo  creek,  in  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
where  they  established  a  rolling  mill  wire 
works  and  kindred  industries.  A  village 
sprang  up  about  these  mills,  which  was  named 
Samsondale  by  Mr.  Peck,  in  honor  of  the  ves- 
sel which  brought  him  from  Liverpool  in 
1830.  Here  was  manufactured  what  was 
known  as  the  E.  P.  brand  sheet  iron,  which 
had  a  high  reputation  among  dealers.  The 
partnership  between  Messrs.  Peck  and  Phelps 
was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Peck  retained  the  shops 
at  Samsondale.  while  Mr.  Phelps  took  the  mer- 
cantile business  in  New  York.  About  this 
time  Mr.  Peck  erected  a  screw  factory  and 
chemical  works,  where  was  carried  on  chiefly 
the  production  of  sulphuric  acid.  In  1833  he 
opened  a  new  road,  which  is  now  the  thor- 
oughfare from  Minisceongo  creek  to  the  rail- 
road station  at  Haverstraw.  The  new  plants 
were  established  on  what  was  known  as  the 
Allison  farm,  which  Mr.  Peck  purchased  for 
that  purpose,  and  removed  the  old  mansion, 
in  whose  place  he  erected  a  handsome  resi- 
dence. His  eldest  son,  Shubael.  who  possessed 
an  inventive  mind  and  was  of  much  assistance 
to  his  father,  was  killed  by  l he  explosion  of 
a  boiler  in  a  vessel  which  he  was  navigating 
on  the  Hudson.  After  this  a  younger  son, 
John  Peck,  became  his  father's  partner. 
About  1842  the  industries  began  to  feel  the 
injurious  effects  of  changes  in  the  tariff,  and 
the  mills  were  closed.  They  were  reopened 
during  the  civil  war  and  did  a  prosperous 
business  for  a  time,  and  have  since  been  occu- 
pied by  various  industries.  Mr.  Peck  was  a 
man  of  keen  foresight  and  great  executive 
ability,  and  became  interested  in  various  large 
enterprises.  He  was  one  of  the  original  pro- 
moters of  the  Somerville  &  Easton  railroad, 
and  of  the  Elizabeth  &  Easton,  both  of  which 
became  part  of  the  New  Jersey  Central  sys- 
tem, in  which  Mr.  Peck  was  a  large  stock- 
holder and  director.  At  one  time  he  was  the 
principal  owner  of  the  Providence  railroad, 
which  under  his  direction  as  president  proved 
to  be  one  of  the  most  profitable  enterprises  of 
the  kind  in  this  section  of  the  Union.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  Hudson  River  railroad,  and 


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when  he  retired  from  the  hoard  resolutions 
of  regret  were  passed  by  his  contemporaries. 
He  was  interested  in  various  other  industries, 
and  it  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  none  of  those 
in  which  he  invested  ever  proved  unprofitable. 
Mr.  Peck  was  a  man  of  genial  nature  and 
very  liberal,  and  when  the  Presbyterian  church 
established  at  Samsondale,  he  donated  the  lot 
upon  which  its  house  of  worship  was  located. 
and  also  contributed  generously  in  cash  to- 
ward its  completion. 

He  married.  June  30,  1814,  Chloe,  daughter 
of  Shubael  Pattison,  of  Berlin,  Connecticut 
Children  :  Shubael,  born  April  10,  181 5  ;  Har- 
riet,  fanuary  22,  1X17;  John,  born  No- 
vember 12.  [818;  Edward,  June  3,  1822; 
Mary  Ann.  December  16,  1823.  The 
youngest  son  was  born  in  Liverpool.  England, 
and  the  youngest  daughter  in  West  Darby, 
England.  The  others  were  born  in  Berlin, 
Connecticut.  '  )f  these  only  the  second  son 
and  youngest  daughter  survived  their  father. 
The  Jatter  became  the  wife  of  George  Gordon. 


Alexander  Hamilton,  dis- 
HAMILTON     tinguished        soldier       and 

statesman,  was  born  in  the 
Island  of  Nevis.  West  Indies,  and  was  of  a 
Scotch  family.  He  was  instructed  under  the 
tutorship  of  a  Scotch  Presbyterian  minister, 
and  in  young  manhood  was  in  charge  of  a 
mercantile  business  in  his  native  place.  In 
1772  friends  induced  him  to  go  to  Boston, 
whence  he  went  to  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  attended  a  preparatory 
school,  thence  entering  King's  College.  New 
York,  but  after  two  years  his  education  was 
interrupted  by  the  occupation  of  the  college 
buildings  by  the  British  troops.  At  the  open- 
ing of  difficulties  he  took  an  emotional  part, 
and  at  the  early  age  of  seventeen,  voluntarily 
ascended  a  platform  in  New  York  City  and 
delivered  a  fiery  phillipic  against  British  op- 
pression. Subsequently  he  issued  a  couple  of 
pamphlets,  which  were  of  such  force  and 
literary  merit  that  they  marked  him  as  a 
revolutionary  leader.  Early  in  1776.  when 
not  nineteen  years  old,  he  had  command  of 
an  artillery  company,  which  he  made  the 
model  of  its  kind  in  General  Greene's  com- 
mand. His  military  behavior  in  the  battles 
of  Long  Island  and  White  Plains  brought  him 
a  commission  as  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Con- 
tinental   army,    and    assignment    to    the    staff 


of  Washington  as  military  secretary.  Taking 
offence  at  a  reproof  from  his  chief,  he  re- 
signed his  position  and  entered  the  field  as 
lieutenant-colonel  of  New  York  artillery.  At 
Yorktown  he  led  a  successful  storming  party 
upon  a  redoubt,  and  was  breveted  colonel. 
He  served  in  the  New  York  assembly  and  in 
congress,  and  also  in  the  national  constitu- 
tional convention.  When  Washington  was 
elected  to  the  presidency,  he  made  Hamilton 
first  secretary  of  the  United  States  Treasury. 
Hamilton's  services  at  this  period  were  con- 
spicuously  useful :  he  inaugurated  a  system 
of  internal  revenue,  a  protective  tariff,  regu- 
lated the  currency,  established  navigation 
laws  and  laws  regulating  the  coasting  trade, 
the  post  offices  and  the  disposition  of  public 
lands,  and  procured  the  purchase  of  land  at 
West  Point  for  a  military  academy.  He  re- 
signed the  secretaryship  in  1795  and  resumed 
his  law  practice  in  New  York  City.  He  main- 
tained close  relation  with  Washington,  and 
was  an  influential  factor  in  public  affairs.  In 
[798  he  was  made  major  general  and  inspec- 
tor general  of  the  army,  and  the  following 
year  was  made  commander-in-chief.  On  July 
11.  1804,  at  Weehawken.  New  Jersey,  he  fell 
in  a  duel  with  Aaron  Burr.  He  married  Eli- 
zabeth, daughter  of  General  Philip  Schuyler, 
of  Albany. 


The  origin  of  this  name  seems 
TELLER     uncertain  ;  it  was  employed  by 

the  first  Dutch  immigrant  and 
has  been  continually  used  by  his  descendants, 
among  whom  have  been  many  conspicuous 
and  useful  citizens  in  Albany  and  Kingston, 
and  all  along  the  Hudson  river  valley. 

(I)  William  Teller,  born  1616,  in  Holland, 
arrived  in  the  province  of  New  Netherlands, 
in  the  year  1639,  and  was  soon  sent  to  Fort 
Orange  by  Governor  Kieft  with  the  rank  of 
corporal.  He  was  probably  a  soldier  before 
his  arrival  in  America,  and  was  made  wacht- 
meister  of  the  fort  at  Albany  by  Governor 
Kieft  soon  after  his  arrival  there.  He  con- 
tinued to  reside  at  Albanv  until  1692,  except 
while  on  trips  to  New  York,  the  Delaware 
river,  and  one  voyage  to  Holland.  For  about 
fifty  years  he  was  a  trader  at  Albany,  whence 
he  removed  to  New  York  in  1692  with  his 
sons,  and  died  in  1701.  In  1656  he  was  one 
of  the  collectors  of  taxes,  and  in  1684  was 
made  alderman  of  the  first  ward  of  Rensselaer- 


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vvyck  (Albany)  upon  the  first  division  of  that 
village  into  wards.  In  that  year  he  was  also 
i  justice  of  the  peace.  In  1678  he  accidentally 
<illed  an  Indian  woman  with  a  gun  which  he 
was  taking  from  the  wall  just  as  she  was 
entering  the  door,  and  was  tried  for  this  on 
May  6  of  that  year  before  the  governor  and 
rouncil  and  was  acquitted.  In  his  will,  made 
March  9,  1669,  proved  1701,  he  spoke  of  six 
Df  his  nine  children  as  then  living,  namely : 
Andries,  Helena,  Elizabeth,  Willem,  Johannes 
and  lannette.  It  is  probable  that  he  had  dis- 
posed of  much  of  his  property  before  his 
death,  when  the  inventory  amounted  to  nine 
hundred  and  ten  pounds,  ten  shillings  and 
two  pence.  He  was  one  of  the  early  proprie- 
tors of  Schenectady  in  1662,  though  probably 
never  a  resident  there,  and  was  one  of  the 
patentees  mentioned  in  the  first  patent  of  the 
town  in  1684.  His  first  wife,  Margaret  Dun- 
cassen,  died  before  1664,  in  which  year  he 
made  a  marriage  contract  with  Maria  Varleth, 
widow  of  Paulis  Schrick.  She  survived  him, 
dying  in  1 702,  when  an  inventory  of  her  estate 
was  made,  amounting  to  one  thousand,  two 
hundred  and  seventy-five  pounds,  twelve  shill- 
ings and  nine  pence.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Casper  and  Judith  Varleth,  early  residents  of 
Port  Good  Hope,  Hartford,  Connecticut,  be- 
ing there  as  early  as  1633.  Children  of  first 
marriage:  Andries,  Helena,  Maria  (Marga- 
rette).  Elizabeth,  Jacob,  William,  Johannes  (or 
John).  Children  of  second  wife:  Janette  (or 
Janneke)  and  Casper. 

( II )  William  (2),  third  son  of  William  (1) 
and  Margaret  (Duncassen)  Teller,  was  born 
in  1657.  at  Albany,  and  settled  in  New  York, 
where  he  made  his  will  June  25,  1710.  He 
married  (first)  November  19,  1686,  Rachel 
Kierstead,  of  New  York,  daughter  of  Hans 
Kierstead  and  Sarah  Rolffsen,  who  died  before 
1705.  He  received  a  license.  January  19,  1705, 
to  marry  his  cousin,  Maria  Van  Tricht.  Chil- 
dren of  first  marriage,  baptized  in  New  York : 
Margarita,  August  17,  1687;  William,  died 
young;  William,  December  25,  1690;  Hans  (or 
John  ) ,  mentioned  below  ;  Margaret,  February 
2,  1696;  Jacobus,  died  young;  Andries,  Janu- 
ary 25,  1702;  Jacobus,  August  29,  1703. 

(III)  Hans  or  John,  third  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Rachael  (Kierstead)  Teller,  was  bap- 
tized March  12.  1693,  in  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  April  2^,  1719,  Catherine  Van  Til- 
burgh,   and    had    sons,    baptized    in    1720   and 


1722.  He  married  (second)  before  1728,  Au- 
lie  Vermilyea.  Children  of  second  marriage: 
Catherine,  born  1728,  married  John  Stouten- 
burgh;  Isaac,  born  1730;  John,  born  1733, 
married  Margaret  Stoutenburgh ;  Jacobus, 
born  1736;  Rachel,  born  1741,  married  Luke 
Stoutenburgh;  Dr.  Abram,  born  1744,  mar- 
ried Margaret  Driemer ;  Cynthia,  married 
Jacobus  Stoutenburgh ;  Luke,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(IV)  Luke,  son  of  John  and  Aulie  (Ver- 
milyea )  Teller,  resided  in  Dutchess  county 
and  died  there.  He  married  Sarah  Snedeker, 
November  10,  1765,  and  had  ten  children, 
namely :  James,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Abram, 
Rachel,  Catherine,  born  June  16,  1778 ;  Rich- 
ard, John,  Auley,  Theodora. 

(V)  James,  probably  eldest  son  of  Luke  and 
Sarah  (Snedeker)  Teller,  died  young.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  lived  a  short  distance  north 
of  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  Where  the  house 
stood  is  still  known  as  Teller's  Hill.  He  mar- 
ried, January  6,  1796,  Sarah  Smith,  who  died 
January  3,  1847.  Children:  William  S.  and 
Caroline.  The  latter  died  at  the  age  of  eight 
years. 

(VI)  William  Smith,  only  son  of  James 
and  Sarah  (Smith)  Teller,  was  born  February 
24,  1807,  and  died  January  21,  1892,  in  King- 
ston. He  and  his  mother  lived  in  Poughkeep- 
sie, where  he  learned  the  tanner  and  currier's 
trade.  He  later  joined  his  brother-in-law  in 
Newburgh  and  engaged  in  the  leather  busi- 
ness for  several  years,  then  removed  to  King- 
ston and  formed  a  co-partnership  with  An- 
drew Near,  purchasing  the  Kingston  Tannery 
of  A.  H.  Bruyn,  and  for  twenty-five  years  car- 
ried on  the  tanning  and  leather  business.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  from  1846  until  his  death  and  was 
an  officer  of  this  body.  He  married  (first) 
October  27,  1831,  Maria  Broomfield,  born 
January  25,  1812,  died  June  15,  1844.  He 
married  (second)  September  17,  1846,  Esther 
M.  Hoyt,  born  September  15,  1824,  died 
March  6,  1865.  He  married  (third)  April  25, 
1867,  Rebecca  Montayne,  born  November  20, 
1823,  died  February  24,  1889.  Children  of 
first  marriage:  James  G.,  born  July  20,  1833, 
died  December  16,  1892,  in  Saugerties,  New 
York,  Caroline,  August  5,  1836,  died  in  her 
sixth  year;  William  H.,  February  20,  1839, 
died  in  his  twenty-fifth  year;  Elizabeth,  Octo- 
ber 20,  1841,  married  Oliver  C.  Webster,  and 


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lived  until  her  death  in  Kingston.  Children 
of  second  wife:  George,  born  November  12, 
[848,  married  Sophia  E.  Brill,  two  children, 
Myron  S.  and  Janette  B. ;  Myron,  mentioned 
below;  Charles,  died  in  infancy. 

(VII)  Myron,  fourth  son  of  William  Smith 
Teller  and  second  child  of  his  second  wife, 
Esther  M.  Hoyt,  was  born  January  1,  1851, 
in  Kingston,  New  York,  where  he  now  re- 
sides, lie  is  a  member,  with  his  family,  of  the 
First  M.  E.  Church  of  that  city.  lie  mar- 
ried, September  18,  1873,  in  Kingston,  Jennie 
Frances  Romer,  daughter  of  William  F.  and 
Jane  (Baldwin)  Romer.  Children:  Marian, 
married  October  23,  1906,  Edward  Dunscomb 
Ibbotson ;  Caroline,  died  May.  1905;  William 
Romer;  Jennie  (Jane  R.),  married  January 
30,  1909,  Charles  Bruyn,  and  lives  in  New 
York  City. 


The  name  of  Romer  is  one  which 

ROMER  has  been  identified  with  many 
important  interests  in  the  state 
of  New  York,  and  the  most  recent  bearer  of  it 
in  the  family  here  under  review  was  William 
F.  Romer,  head  of  the  Albany  and  Newburgh 
Day  Line  of  boats. 

(I)  Jacob  Romer  married.  August  20,  1754, 
Fannie  Erlacher,  and  they  had  children:  Hen- 
drick,  burn  June  17.  1755:  Elizabeth,  born 
May  3,  1757:  Frena.  burn  September  13,  [760; 
Catrina,  burn  April  30,  1763;  Jacob,  see  for- 
ward: Johannes,  born  17(7:  Maritie,  born 
June  25.  [760:  Vnnette,  bum  May  20,  [770; 
Sara,  burn  November  16,  1773;  Femmetje, 
burn  February  20,  1777. 

(  II )  Jacob  12),  son  of  Jacob  1  1  1  and  Fan- 
nie (  Erlacher)  Romer,  was  born  November  4. 
17*14.  He  married  Hannah  Henderson  and 
had  children  as  follows:  Benjamin;  Sarah; 
James  II..  see  forward;  Fannie;  Nancy;  Tohn, 
married  Fannie  Mead,  of  Tarrytown ;  Char- 
lotte. 

(  III  )  James  II.,  sun  of  Jacob  (2)  and  I  Tan- 
nab  (Henderson)  Romer.  was  a  Methodist 
minister,  who  had  been  pastor  of  a  church  in 
Putnam  county,  and  his  last  charge  was  in 
New  York  City,  died  in  Kingston,  New  York. 
He  married  Abigail  Du  Bois,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Mary  (  Contain  )  Du  Bois,  grand- 
daughter of  Louis  and  Elizabeth  (Souliss) 
Du  Bois,  and  sister  of  John,  William,  Peter. 
David,  Esther,  Mary.  Stephen,  Elizabeth  and 
Phoebe.      James    H.    and    Abigail    (Du    Bois) 


Romer  bad  children:  1.  James  L.,  married  I 
Juliette  Young,  daughter  of  Lewis  W.  and  I 
Marjante  R.  (Dubois)  Young,  and  had  chil- 
dren: William;  Maggie  E. ;  James  L. ;  John; 
Frank  R. ;  Caroline  L.,  who  married  Roger 
Williams,  and  has  a  son,  Roger  Williams,  Jr. 
2.  William  F.,  see  forward.  3.  Phoebe  D.  B., 
never  married. 

(  IV)  William  F.,  son  of  James  II.  and  Abi- 
gail (  Du  Bois)  Romer,  was  born  at  Tarry- 
town,  New  York,  in  1820,  died  at  Kingston, 
New  York,  August  3,  1885.  lie  received  the 
education  which  the  common  schools  of  the 
day  afforded,  and  being  an  apt  and  attentive 
scholar  he  acquired  a  fund  of  useful  knowB 
edge.  In  1S40  he  commenced  teaching  in 
Marbletown,  New  York.  When  General 
Joseph  Smith  was  cashier  of  the  Kingston  Na- 
tional Bank,  application  was  made  by  Mr. 
Ferguson  for  the  appointment  of  William  F. 
Romer  as  discount  clerk  and,  upon  the  recom- 
mendation of  Judge  Hardenburgh,  and  other 
prominent  residents  of  Marbletown,  Mr. 
Romer  received  the  appointment.  In  1841  he 
was  appointed  teller  and  bookkeeper,  and  a 
few  years  later  was  made  cashier,  an  office 
he  was  filling  at  the  time  of  his  first  Connec- 
ticut with  the  freighting  business  in  Rondoul 
He  resigned  from  his  official  position  in  the 
bank  in  1S4S,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
Nathan  Anderson  and  bis  son  under  the  firm 
name  of  Anderson.  Romer  &  Company,  and 
a  third  interest  in  the  steamer  "1  Iigblander" 
was  purchased.  In  1853  Captain  Tremper  and  ! 
Mr.  ( iillett  bought  out  the  interests  of  the 
Andersons,  and  the  firm  name  became  Romer, 
Tremper  &  Gillett.  They  were  the  owners  of 
two  steamers,  the  "Rip  Van  Winkle"  and  the 
"North  America."  In  1856  Mr.  Romer  and  i 
Mr.  Tremper  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Gil- 
lett and  the  firm  name  was  changed  to  read  I 
Romer  &  Tremper,  under  which  style  it  was  • 
known  until  [883,  at  which  time  the  firm  was 
incorporated  as  the  Romer  c!v  Tremper  Steam- 
boat Company,  and  they  became  the  owners 
of  the  Albany  &  Newburgh  Day  Line.  While 
his  connection  with  the  bank  was  still  in  force 
Mr.  Romer  married  Jane  R.,  daughter  of 
James  W.  and  Mary  I  Newkirk  1  Baldwin,  of 
Kingston,  and  they  had  children:  r.  Mary 
De  Witt,  who  died  September  12.  1866.  2. 
Jane  F.,  who  married  Myron  Teller,  and  had 
children:  Marian,  married  Edward  D.  Ibhut- 
son;  Caroline,  deceased:  William  Romer.  mar' 


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ried  Adelaide  Hardenburgh :  Jane  R.,  married 
Diaries  D.  Bruyn. 

Mr.  Romer  in  all  his  business  affairs  was 
m  honest,  upright  man,  noted  for  his  integrity. 
.n  social  life  he  had  many  and  sincere  friends, 
md  he  was  a  kind  husband  and  an  indulgent 
:ather.  When  a  young  man  he  identified  him- 
;elf  with  the  St.  James  Methodist  Episcopal 
"hurch,  was  a  prominent  member  and  held 
>fficial  position  during  the  greater  part  of  his 
ife.  He  was  one  of  the  main  supporters  of 
his  church  and  gave  liberally  to  it.  and  to 
:very  benevolent  project  which  it  furthered. 


This  name  appears  in  the  early 
CORSA  Dutch  records  of  the  state  of 
New  York  in  a  variety  of  forms, 
;uch  as  Corse,  Corsa,  Corsse,  Corssen,  and 
Toursen,  and  appears  to  have  been  derived 
torn  Cornelius.  In  comparatively  recent 
imes  members  of  the  family  in  Westchester 
:ounty.  New  York,  wrote  it  Cursa,  and  the 
vill  of  Benjamin  Corsen,  of  the  fourth  gener- 
ition  below  is  recorded  under  the  name  Cour- 
on.  The  Dutch  had  a  great  habit  of  abbrevi- 
iting  names  and  frequently  called  Cornelius 
'Cors."  and  it  was  a  very  simple  step  to  call 
lis  sons  Corssen.  An  effort  has  been  made  to 
•onnect  this  family  with  Hendrick  Corstiansen 
>r  Christiansen  from  Clieves,  Holland,  who  is 
;aid  to  have  been  a  mate  with  Hudson  on  the 
'Half-moon"  and  who  made  several  voyages 
)etween  Amsterdam  in  his  native  land  and 
iVJew  Amsterdam,  now  New  York.  He  had  a 
:omrade,  Cornelius  Hendricksen,  who  may 
lave  been  his  son  or  merely  a  friend  and  co- 
/oyager.  He  was  killed  by  one  of  two  Indians 
vhom  he  had  captured  and  carried  to  Holland, 
ind  returned  to  Manhattan  Island.  This  was 
it  the  beginning  of  the  year  1614.  This  much 
s  certain,  that  the  first  ancestor  from  whom 
his  family  can  be  continuously  traced  was  the 
ion  of  a  man  named  Peter.  The  family  has 
ieen  long  identified  with  the  state  of  New 
ifork,  and  for  some  time  was  in  possession  of 
anded  property  at  Fordham,  the  title  to  some 
)f  which  is  still  in  dispute. 

( I)  The  first  of  whom  any  record  is  dis- 
•overed  was  Cornelis  Pieterse  Yroom  Corssen, 
.vho  resided  in  New  Amsterdam,  where  his 
•hildren  were  baptized.  He  married  Tryntje 
Hendricks,  and  died  before  16^7.  She  mar- 
ked (second),  August  17.  1657,  Frederick 
^ubbertse,  of  Brooklyn.    Children  of  Cornelis 


P.  V.  Corssen  were :    Cornelis,  baptized  April 

23,  1O45  ;  Pieter,  March  5,  165 1  ;  Hendrick,  No- 
vember 30,  1653;  and  Catherine,  who  married 
John  Stats. 

(II)  Cornelis,  son  of  Cornelis  Pieterse 
Vroom  and  Tryntje  (Hendricks)  Corssen,  was 
baptized  April  23,  1645,  in  New  York,  and  re- 
sided in  Brooklyn,  where  he  was  on  the  assess- 
ment rolls  in  1675-6,  and  constable  in  1677. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  Dutch 
church  of  Brooklyn,  and  described  as  of  Wala- 
bocht  (Wallabout).  By  1680  he  removed  to 
Staten  Island,  where  he  took  title,  December 

24,  of  that  year,  to  three  hundred  and  fifty-two 
acres  on  the  west  side  of  Mill  Creek,  and  on 
the  28th  of  the  same  month  an  additional  one 
hundred  and  eighty  acres.  Both  these  tracts 
were  purchased  for  himself  and  three  asso- 
ciates, and  his  share  of  the  last  named  was 
sixty  acres.  He  also  secured  thirty-two  acres 
of  salt  meadow  "where  most  convenient."  He 
was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  for  Rich- 
mond count)-.  April  2,  1685,  was  later  captain 
of  militia,  and  in  1689  held  both  positions.  In 
1 68 1  he  bought  land  on  the  Raritan  river  in 
New  Jersey  for  three  cents  per  acre.  His 
will,  made  December  9,  1692,  was  proved  Au- 
gust 1,  1693.  He  married,  in  New  Amster- 
dam. March  11,  1666,  Marrytje  Jacobs,  van 
der  Grist  (Grift).  In  the  record  he  is  de- 
scribed as  a  young  man  of  Brooklyn  and  she 
as  a  young  woman  of  New  York.  He  had 
sons:  Jacob;  Cornelius,  baptized  August  13, 
168 1,  who  was  many  years  a  justice  of  the 
peace  of  Staten  Island ;  Christian,  a  second 
judge  and  lieutenant-colonel  in  1738;  and 
Daniel,  baptized  February  8.  1690,  in  New 
York.  Benjamin,  another  son,  removed  in 
1726  to  Northampton,  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  his  descendants  have  resided  until 
very  recent  time. 

(III)  Jacob  Corsen,  eldest  son  of  Cornelis 
and  Marrytje  (Jacobs)  Corssen,  was  born 
about  1668,  and  resided  on  Staten  Island, 
where  he  made  his  will,  October  8,  1742.  By 
this  instrument  his  homestead  was  bequeathed 
to  his  son  Jacob,  and  seventy  pounds  to  each 
of  his  children,  including:  Suster,  wife  of 
Johannes  Simonson ;  Mary,  Mrs.  Joshua  Mer- 
sereau  ;  Douwe,  Benjamin,  and  Rebecca,  wife 
of  John  Blom.  Very  little  mention  of  this 
family  is  found  in  the  records  of  Staten  Island 
at  a  later  day. 

(IV)  Benjamin   Corsa,  son   of  Jacob   Co: 


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sen,  was  born  he-fore  1700,  and  the  family  tra- 
dition says  he  was  named  in  honor  of  Gover- 
nor Benjamin  Fletcher,  whose  jurisdiction  be- 
gan with  the  year  [692.  lie  probably  resided 
about  the  time  of  his  majority  at  Fordham, 
which  was  then  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Xew 
York.  He  married,  April  17,  1718,  in  New 
York,  Jannetje  Reyers,  daughter  of  Reyer 
Michaelson  Reyers.  In  the  records  she  is  de- 
scribed as  a  young  woman  from  the  Manor 
of  Fordham  and  he  is  called  a  young  man  from 
Xew  York.  His  will,  made  October  I,  1770, 
is  on  record  in  Westchester  county,  and  he 
died  before  December  22,  of  the  same  year, 
when  the  will  was  proved.  It  disposed  of 
lands  now  occupied  by  Fordham  University 
and  the  homestead  mansion  is  still  standing  on 
the  grounds  of  the  University  and  used  as  an 
infirmary.  Southern  boulevard  now  crosses 
the  old  graveyard  in  which  many  of  the  Corsa 
family  are  buried.  The  will  mentions  sons 
Tunis,  John,  then  deceased,  and  Isaac,  and 
daughter  Jane  Lent.  Isaac  was  made  execu- 
tor of  the  will. 

(V)  Captain  Isaac  Corsa,  youngest  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Jannetje  (Reyers)  Corsa,  was 
born  about  1735,  at  Fordham,  and  was  com- 
missioned as  captain  of  a  company  of  ninety- 
five  men  in  an  expedition  against  the  French 
in  1755.  As  already  noted,  he  was  made  ex- 
ecutor of  his  father's  estate  and  during  his 
lifetime  the  property  passed  out  of  the  family. 
He  married  Alary,  daughter  of  Andrew  Gibb, 
of  Fordham  Manor,  who  made  his  will  Decem- 
ber 24,  1701,  in  which  twenty-five  pounds  was 
bequeathed  to  his  daughter  Mary,  wife  of 
Isaac  Corsa.  They  had  children:  John,  An- 
drew, Isaac.  Richard  and  Hannah.  "  The  first 
removed  to  Nova  Scotia.  The  second.  Andrew, 
resided  in  the  vicinity  of  Fordham.  He  was 
a  soldier  of  the  revolution  and  was  the  last 
survivor  of  Washington's  Scouts,  dying  at  the 
age  of  ninety-one  years.  The  other  sons  re- 
sided in  the  vicinity  of  Fordham,  and  the  third 
married  Helena  Mussing,  of  Harlem,  for  his 
first  wife,  and  Mary  Poole,  second. 

(VI)  Richard,  fourth  son  of  Captain  Isaac 
and  Mary  (Gibb)  Corsa,  was  born  February 
Q.  1793,  in  Fordham,  where  he  resided  and  died 
December  26,  [853.  He  married.  December 
27,  1817,  Esther  Crawford,  born  May  4.  1799, 
died  January  24.  1870.  They  had  children : 
Louisa  A  .  born  December  24,1818;  lames  C, 
mentioned  below;  Andrew  J.,  April    1,    1822; 


Rachel.  April  30,  1825,  and  Armenia,  June  11, 
[830.  The  second  son  married  (first)  Octo- 
ber 7,  1SO0,  Jane  Van  Riper,  and  (second) 
November  10,  1869,  Araminta  Jackson.  He 
was  long  engaged  in  business  in  Williamsburg 
in  association  with  his  elder  brother. 

(  VII  )  James  Crawford,  eldest  son  of  Rich- 
ard and  Esther  (Crawford)  Corsa,  was  born 
May  7,  1820,  on  the  Corsa  homestead  in  Ford- 
ham, and  attended  the  public  schools  in  the 
neighborhood  of  his  home.  While  still  a  boy 
he  was  apprenticed  to  the  cooper's  trade  and 
after  becoming  a  journeyman  located  in  Wil- 
liamsburg, where  he  was  employed  in  making 
casks  for  a  sugar  refining  company.  He  was 
subsequently  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account  with  a  man  named  Flynn,  and  they 
were  the  first  in  Brooklyn  to  use  machinery 
in  the  manufacture  of  casks.  They  also  manu- 
factured kegs  for  the  Atlantic  White  Lead 
Company,  and  continued  in  this  line  of  busi- 
ness until  about  1877.  Mr.  Corsa  was  after- 
ward employed  by  the  sugar  refining  company 
of  Crabb  &  Company,  in  which  his  brother 
Andrew  J.  was  a  partner,  among  the  first  im- 
porters of  raw  sugar.  He  continued  in  this 
association  until  his  death,  April  30.  1800,  near 
the  cluse  of  his  seventieth  year.  He  was  affili- 
ated with  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  whose 
house  of  worship  was  located  in  the  rear  of 
the  present  Borough  Hall,  Brooklyn,  and  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Order  of  American  Me- 
chanics. He  married,  March  26,  1850,  Sarah 
Garretson,  daughter  of  Garret  and  Mary  ( Ro- 
maine)  Garretson,  and  had  two  children; 
Andrew  Jackson  and  Mary  Jane.  The  latter 
became  the  wife  of  William  Hooker  Meeteer 
and  now  resides  in  Brooklyn. 

(  YIII )  Andrew  Jackson,  only  son  of  James 
Crawford  and  Sarah  (Garretson)  Corsa.  was 
born  December  4,  1856,  at  his  father's  home 
on  President  street,  in  Brooklyn,  and  attended 
the  Wilson  street  public  school  of  that  city 
until  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  He  was  then 
employed  as  office  boy  by  the  Exchange  In- 
surance Company  of  New  York  City,  and 
since  that  time  has  been  continuously  identified 
with  insurance  interests.  He  was  soon  ad-  I 
vanced  to  a  clerkship  and  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
five  was  made  assistant  secretary  of  the  com- 
pany. At  the  age  of  thirty  years  he  became 
secretary  of  the  Mechanics'  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York  and  in  1885  became  man- 
ager (if  the  Alliance  Insurance  Association  of 


HENRY  HUDSON 


An  Intrepid  English  na 
pa  sage  to  India,  and  on  t 
signed  a  contract  with  th 
Amerli  .1 :    stai  ted  irom   th 

bth.  anchored  at  42°  40'  (Albany)  Sept.  19th;  sailed  lor  Engl 
sequent  voyage  his  crew  mutinied  and  he  was  set  adrift 
23,   161  I. 


.it.. 1  who  made  trips  in  M.l)7an.l  1608  seeking  an  Arctic 
•  third  sailed  Into  the  Hudson  River.  On  Jan.  8.  1  609,  he 
Dutch  East  India  Co.  to  sail  the  Half  Moon  (60  tons)  to 
Texel,  Holland,  March  25th,  entered  The  Narrows  Sept. 
d  Oct.  4th.  On  sub- 
Hudson's   Bay,  June 


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••Jew  York,  in  which  position  he  continued  five 
:  rears.  At  the  same  time  he  was  made  man- 
iger  of  the  Queen  Insurance  Company  of 
\merica  and  located  his  offices  in  Brooklyn, 
vhere  he  has  since  continued.  Since  1908  he 
las  also  represented  the  Sun  Insurance  office 
>f  London  and  conducts  a  general  insurance 
>rokerage.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
irst  president  of  the  Brooklyn  Underwriters' 
\ssociation,  formed  in  1896,  and  became  presi- 
lent  of  the  Nassau  County  Board  of  'I  rade, 
>rganized  in  1906.  He  is  at  present  president 
if  the  Brooklyn  Business  Men's  Association 
ind  a  member  of  the  Merchants'  Association 
'  )f  New  York,  representing  in  that  body  the 
sun  Insurance  office  of  London  and  also  the 
insurance  Society  of  New  York.  For  five 
'ears  he  was  secretary  of  the  Brooklyn  Salvage 
"orps  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  commission 
'or  locating  and  constructing  a  new  municipal 
)uilding  for  Brooklyn  and  also  chairman  of 
|':he  commission  for  the  Marginal  Railroad, 
.vhich  goes  along  the  river  front  of  Brooklyn. 
He  is  a  past  master  of  Aurora  Grata  Lodge 
No.  756,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Brooklyn,  in  which  he  was  raised,  and  is  now 
iffiliated  with  Chrystal  Wave  Lodge.  He  is 
it  present  grand  representative  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  California  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
^ew  York.  Mr.  Corsa  was  reared  under  the 
cachings  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  with 
.vhich  he  is  still  in  active  sympathy.  Politically 
ne  is  independent  of  partisan  rulings.  He  has 
always  been  active  in  political,  civic  and  religi- 
dus  interests  for  Brooklyn's  good.  He  mar- 
ried, November  4,  1885,  in  Brooklyn,  Eliza- 
beth Steimle,  born  November  24,  1868,  in 
Brooklyn,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Jannette 
(Cook)  Steimle.  They  have  only  one  child, 
Stanley  J.,  mentioned  below. 

(  IX  )  Stanley  James,  only  son  of  Andrew 
Jackson  and  Elizabeth  (Steimle)  Corsa.  was 
born  October  17,  1886,  in  Brooklyn,  and  began 
receiving  private  instruction  at  the  early  age 
of  six  years.  He  subsequently  attended  the 
Brooklyn  public  school  until  twelve  years  of 
age,  when  he  entered  the  Brooklyn  Polytech- 
nic Institute  and  remained  one  year.  In  1900, 
he  was  sent  to  Major  Holbrook's  Military 
Academy  at  Ossining,  New  York,  where  he 
remained  for  one  year,  subsequently  becoming 
again  a  student  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic 
Institute,  where  he  finished  in  1905.  He  im- 
mediately entered  the  fire  insurance  business 


of  his  father  as  a  clerk,  and  in  1910  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership  in  the  business,  which 
has  since  been  conducted  under  the  firm  name 
of  Andrew  J.  Corsa  &  Son,  with  offices  on 
Remsen  street.  They  transact  a  general  fire 
insurance  business,  covering  a  wide  range  of 
country,  representing  the  Queens  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company  of  America,  the  Sun  Insurance 
Company  of  London,  England,  and  various 
other  responsible  underwriters,  besides  con- 
ducting a  general  brokerage  business  in  in- 
surance. Mr.  Corsa  is  a  member  of  the  Beta 
Phi  fraternity  of  Brooklyn,  the  Insurance  So- 
ciety of  New  York,  and  Bedford  Conclave 
No.  850,  Improved  Order  of  Heptasophs.  He 
attends  religious  services  at  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed or  Episcopal  church,  and  is  a  stead- 
fast Democrat  in  political  principle. 

Henry  (or  Hendrick)  Hud- 
HUDSON  son,  famous  explorer,  was 
probably  born  in  London,  Eng- 
land, about  1775.  He  was  bred  to  the 
sea,  and  in  1609  he  was  engaged  by  the  Dutch 
East  India  Company  to  discover  new  whale 
fishing  grounds.  On  April  4  that  year  he 
sailed  in  the  "Half  Moon,"  an  eighty-ton  ship, 
with  a  crew  of  sixteen  men,  about  equally 
divided  between  Englishmen  and  Dutchmen, 
with  the  intention  of  reaching  Nova  Zembla, 
and  was  prevented  by  ice.  Bearing  west  he 
passed  the  Newfoundland  banks,  thence  pass- 
ing by  Penobscot  Bay  and  Cape  Cod.  Arriv- 
ing at  the  James  river,  Virginia,  he  decided 
not  to  meet  Captain  John  Smith,  and  sailed 
north.  Entering  Delaware  Bay,  he  concluded 
he  could  make  no  passage  to  the  East  Indies, 
and  following  the  Jersey  coast  reached  Sandy 
Hook  on  September  3.  He  sailed  150  miles 
up  the  river  which  bears  his  name,  and  then 
returned  to  England.  He  was  ordered  by  his 
employers  to  return  to  Holland.  In  the  sum- 
mer of  1610  he  sailed  in  an  English  ship,  the 
"Discovery."  and  in  Hudson's  Bay  (which 
received  its  name  from  him ) .  he  and  bis  son 
John  and  five  of  his  seamen  were  cast  adrift 
by  mutineers,  and  all  miserably  perished. 

The  family  tradition  states  that 
FURMAN     this  name  is  of  Welsh  origin 
and  it  may  be  true  that  it  orig- 
inated in  the  English  from  someone  who  dealt 
in  furs,  but  the  stronger  supposition  is  that  it 
came    from    the   German   Fuhrman,   the   man 


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who  made  journeys  or  carried  other  people  on 
their  journeys.  At  any  rate,  people  bearing 
this  name  have  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  history  of  the  state  of  New  York 
from  a  very  early  penud.  While  not  numer- 
ous they  have  borne  their  proportionate  share- 
in  the  struggles  of  pioneer  life  and  ill  the 
building  up  of  communities  morally,  socially 
and  materially. 

(I)  |ohn  Furman,  born  1O00,  came  from 
\\  airs,  according  to  the  family  tradition,  and 
was  made  a  freeman  of  the  Massachusetts 
Colony  in  [631.  Soon  after  this  he  probably 
removed  to  Long  Island  and  little  further  con- 
cerning him  is  known. 

ill)  Josiah  and  John  Furman,  sons  of  John. 
removed  from  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  to 
the  town  of  Newtown,  where  they  purchased 
land  and  where  John  died  in  1677,  aged  about 
forty-six  years,  leaving  a  sun  Jonathan.  Jo- 
siah Furman,  born  1635,  in  Massachusetts, 
died  in  1705  in  Newtown,  leaving  sons.  John. 
[osiah,  Joseph,  David,  Samuel  and  Jonathan. 

(III)  John  (2),  apparently  eldest  son  of 
[osiah  Furman,  born  in  Newtown,  died  there 
in  172O.  He  was  one  of  the  twenty-four  pat- 
entees of  Jamaica  by  grant  of  Governor  Don 
gan  made  May  17,  1686.  lie  married  Mar- 
garet Lynch. 

(IV)  Gabriel,  son  of  John  (21  and  Mar- 
garet (Lynch)  Furman,  was  born  [690,  in 
Newtown,  and  owned  a  farm  in  the  locality  of 
that  town,  known  as  Whitepot.  He  died  there 
September  23,  1 70S.  He  married,  August  19, 
1713,  Abigail,  daughter  of  William  and  Abi- 
gail I  toward,  of  New  Lots,  born  about  [69Z. 
They  had  sons:  William,  John,  Samuel,  How- 
ard.   Nathan,   Joseph  and   Benjamin 

(  V  )  Benjamin,  youngest  son  of  Gabriel  and 
Abigail  (Howard)  Furman,  was  born  about 
1720-30  in  Newtown,  and  settled  early  in  life 
in  the  town  of  Ramapo,  Rockland  county,  re- 
moving later  to  Ilaverstraw.  He  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Rem  and  Mary  (  Letten  1 
Remsen,  born  May  4,  1732  in  Newtown. 

(VI)  William,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary 
(Remsen)  Furman,  was  born  February  21, 
7771,  in  the  town  of  Ramapo,  and  died  Novem- 
ber, 1824,  having  there  engaged  in  farming. 
He  was  a  Methodist  in  religion  and  is  de- 
scribed by  his  descendants  as  a  Republican. 
He  probably  belonged  to  a  party  under  that 
name  which  flourished  for  a  short  time  in  the 
early  part  of  the  nineteenth  centurv.    He  mar- 


ried  Elizabeth  Cooper,  born  June  16,  1780.  a  . 
member  of  a  large  and  influential   family  of 
Rockland  county.    Children:    Elizabeth,  John, 
Abram,    Lilbert.    Martha,   William   F.,   Eliza- 
beth and  George. 

(VII)  Gilbert,  third  son  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  (  Cooper  )  Furman,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 28,  1807,  in  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
and  settled  in  Haverstraw,  where  he  was  a. 
fanner  and  lumberman,  and  died  May  5,  1889. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  in 
which  he  held  various  official  positions,  and 
was  a  man  of  high  character,  noted  for  his 
industry  and  upright  life.  He  was  buried 
from  the  Mechanicsville  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  was  borne  to  his  last  resting  place 
by  six  of  his  sons,  Henry.  George,  John,  Mon- 
roe, Benjamin  and  Harmon,  while  the  other 
-on,  William  (',.,  supported  his  widowed 
mother.  He  married  Sarah  Van  Waert.  born 
November  17,  1815,  in  Little  Falls,  New  Jer- 
sey, died  September  22.  18113,  in  Flaverstraw. 
She  was  a  descendant  of  the  old  Dutch  fami- 
lies of  Van  Waert  and  Dey,  located  in  New 
Jersey.  She  was  possessed  of  many  Christian 
virtues,  ever  ready  to  relieve  suffering  and  ' 
deeply  revered  by  her  family.  After  her  death 
her  body  was  borne  to  the  grave  by  her  sons,' 
William  G.,  Henry.  George,  Monroe,  Benja- 
min and  Harmon  (  John  being  ill  at  the  time), 
and  deposited  beside  that  of  her  husband. 
Children:  John.  Catharine.  William  G., 
Abram,  Sarah  Mancell,  Henry.  John  Wesley, 
George  Banghart,  Charles,  Gilbert  Monroe, 
Benjamin,  I farmon,  Ida  L. 

(VIII)  John   Wesley,  fifth   son  of  Gilbert  1 
and   Sarah   (Van  Waert)    Furman,  was  born  1 
March  9,  1847,  in  Haverstraw,  New  York.  He? 
grew  up  on  the  paternal  farm,  in  whose  labor  t 
he  took  an  active  part,  and  attended  the  dis- 
trict school  at  Camp  Hill  until  eighteen  years  * 
of  age  when  he  entered   Canandaigua  Acad- 
miv.     Later  he  was  a  student  at  the  Oswego 
Normal  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  I 
in    1 87 1,   and   entered    Cornell   University   in 
1873.     In  1879  he  became  a  student  at  the  law 
school  of  New  York  University,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1881  with  the  degree  of  I 
LL.B.     For   some  years  he  was   engaged   in 
teaching  in  Rockland  county,  and  was  for  a 
time  employed  as  principal  in  the  city  schools 
of  Binghamton,  New  York,  and  the  southerly 
part  of  Westchester  county,  which  afterward 
became  annexed  to  New  York  City.     In  1881 


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le  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Haverstraw, 
>Jew  York,  and  has  been  so  engaged  continu- 
msly  to  the  present  time.  By  his  industry, 
trict  integrity,  and  thorough  preparation  he 
•btained  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  and 
s  one  of  the  leading  and  inuuential  lawyers 
f  Rockland  county. 

He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in 
ducational  matters  and  for  many  years  served 
s  clerk  of  the  Haverstraw  board  of  educa- 
ion.  During  this  time  the  public  school  sys- 
em  of  the  village  has  been  re-organized  and 
he  present  large  high  school  building  erected 
1  which  Mr.  Furman  took  a  very  active  part. 
Notwithstanding  his  extensive  professional  du- 
ies,  he  has  ever  been  ready  to  advance  the  in- 
erest  of  his  home  town  and  the  general  com- 
lunity.  He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Meth- 
■dist  church  of  that  place,  in  which  he  is  a 
rustee  and  teacher  of  the  Bible  class.     He  is 

member  of  Stony  Point  Lodge,  No.  313, 
rree  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Iona  Lodge,  No. 
28,  Knights  of  Pythias ;  and  Sequel  Lodge, 
No.  542,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
eing  a  past  noble  grand  of  the  last  named 
ody.  Mr.  Furman  took  the  leading  part  in 
ecuring  the  incorporation  of  Mount  Repose 
"emetery,  located  at  Haverstraw,  New  York, 
nd  through  the  efforts  of  himself  and  his 
rother  Henry  this  cemetery  has  been  greatly 
nproved  and  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
eautiful  and  attractive  along  the  Hudson 
iver. 

He  married,  June  29,  1892,  in  Haverstraw, 
da  May  Holmes,  an  estimable  woman,  born 
September  24,  1856,  in  Kingston,  New  York, 
aughter  of  Charles  and  Henrietta  (Cosgrove) 
lolmes,  who  were  the  parents  of  the  follow- 
ng  children:  William  S,  Emma,  Charlotte, 
Minnie  F.,  Ida  May,  Charles,  Albert,  Nettie, 
Hara. 


Frans  Hendrickszen,  the 
HENDRICKS     founder  of  this  family,  was 

born  in  Breevoort,  Hol- 
ind,  and  died  in  New  Amsterdam  before  No- 
ember  6,  1684,  the  date  of  his  widow's  second 
narriage.  He  married  in  the  Dutch  church  in 
■Jew  Amsterdam  in  1670,  Belitje  Jorisz, 
laughter  of  Joris  Stephenszen  and  Annatje 
lendricks,  who  had  emigrated  from  Brugge, 
n  Vlaenderen,  and  was  at  the  time  of  her  mar- 
iage  living:  in  Milpits  Kill.  She  married 
second)    November   6,    1684,    in    the    Dutch 


church  in  New  Amsterdam,  George  Atkins,  an 
Englishman,  who  had  come  from  Virginia  or 
Maryland  and  settled  in  New  Amsterdam. 
Children  of  Frans  Hendrickszen,  baptized  in 
the  Dutch  church  in  New  Amsterdam :  Hen- 
drick,  baptized  March  16,  1672,  died  in  in- 
fancy; Hendrick  Franse,  referred  to  below; 
Geesje,  baptized  November  10,  1675. 

(II)  Hendrick  Franse,  son  of  Frans  Hen- 
drickszen and  Belitje  Jorisz,  was  baptized  in 
the  Dutch  church  in  New  Amsterdam,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1673.  After  1725  he  removed  to 
Dutchess  county.  New  York.  He  married 
(first)  Reuth  Moor,  and  (second)  October 
21,  1709,  Anna  Maria  Sipken,  widow  of  Har- 
man  Lucasz,  of  New  York.  Children  (two 
by  first  marriage)  :  Frans,  referred  to  below; 
Marijtje,  baptized  July  2,  1710;  Anna,  baptized 
June  3,  171 1  ;  Jan,  baptized  September  20, 
1713  ;  Hendricus,  baptized  June  6,  1715  ;  Elsje, 
baptized  September  1,  1717 ;  Elisabet,  baptized 
June  7,  1721 ;  Johannes,  baptized  February  26, 
1725- 

(III)  Frans  Hendricks,  son  of  Hendrick 
Franse  and  Reuth  Moor,  was  born  in  New 
York  about  1705,  died  near  Kingston,  Ulster 
county,  New  York.  He  married,  in  the  Dutch 
church,  in  Kingston,  August  31,  1734,  Eliza- 
beth Valk.  Children,  baptized  at  Kingston : 
Louwerens,  baptized  June  2j,  1736,  married, 
May  6,  1763,  Elizabeth  Pleogh  ;  Johannes,  bap- 
tized December  2,  1739;  Jacob,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 2j,  1741,  married,  August  24,  1771, 
Ariantje  Louw ;  Elizabeth,  baptized  April  29, 
1744;  Philip,  referred  to  below;  Petrus,  twin 
with  Philip,  baptized  July  17,  1748;  Catherine, 
baptized  February  16,  1752. 

(IV)  Philip,  son  of  Frans  and  Elizabeth 
( Valk )  Hendricks,  was  born  near  Kingston, 
Ulster  county,  New  York,  and  baptized  in  the 
Dutch  church  at  Kingston,  July  17,  1748.  He 
died  November  28,  1834.  He  married,  in  the 
Dutch  church,  in  Kingston,  December  27, 
1775'  Catherine  van  Stynberg,  who  was  born 
in  1747  and  died  May  9,  1835.  Children: 
Elizabeth,  baptized  June  27,  1779 ;  Abraham, 
baptized  October  21,  1781,  married  Maria  Os- 
terhout ;  Philip  (2),  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Philip  (2).  son  of  Philip  ( 1)  and  Cath- 
erine (van  Stynberg)  Hendricks,  was  born 
September  3,  1791,  near  Kingston,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  died  November  16,  1876. 
He  inherited  the  old  family  homestead  from 
his   father,  and  cultivated   it   until  his   death. 


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He  was  captain  in  the  National  Guard 
of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  in  Kingston.  He  married,  De- 
cember 21,  1815,  Elsie  Elmendorf,  who  was 
born  March  21,  1795,  and  died  October  2~, 
1869.  Among  his  children  were :  Martin  Ed- 
gar, referred  to  below  ;  Racheal  Catherine,  and 
Abram. 

(VI)  Martin  Edgar,  son  of  Philip  (2)  and 
•  Elsie  ( Elmendorf )  Hendricks,  was  born  on 
his  father's  farm  near  Kingston,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  May  28,  1822,  died  June  10,  1905. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  township  and  worked 
on  the  farm,  which  he  inherited  at  his  father's 
death,  and  which  he  cultivated  until  his  own 
death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  liberal  branch 
of  the  Democratic  party,  and  served  as  school 
trustee  and  overseer  of  the  poor  in  1872  and 
1873.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Dutch 
Reformed  Church,  in  Kingston,  of  which  he 
was  deacon  and  elder  for  two  years  in  each 
office,  and  was  also  the  superintendent  of  the 
branch  Sabbath-school  of  the  church  in  East 
Kingston.  He  was  a  liberal  supporter  of  the 
various  benevolent  and  philanthropic  enter- 
prises of  the  vicinity,  and  actively  identified 
with  all  movements  of  an  elevating  and  Chris- 
tian character.  He  married,  September  26, 
1850.  Harriet  Ann,  daughter  of  Tjerck  and 
Margaret  (Hendricks)  Wynkoop.  who  was 
born  December  27,  1824,  and  died  April  7, 
1909:    Child:    Clarence  P.,  referred  to  below. 

(YI1)  Clarence  P.,  son  of  Martin  Edgar 
and  Harriet  Ann  (Wynkoop)  Hendricks,  was 
born  on  the  old  homestead,  near  Kingston,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York.  September  29,  1856, 
and  is  now  living  in  Kingston  city.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm  until  1890, 
when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles 
M.  Streeter  in  the  business  of  brick  manufac- 
turing under  the  firm  name  of  Streeter  &  Hen- 
dricks, which  continued  until  1900,  when  he 
purchased  the  interests  of  his  partner,  and 
conducted  the  business  until  1906.  In  iqoC> 
he  admitted  to  partnership  F.  P.  Luther,  and 
the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  title 
of  the  Hendricks  Brick  Company,  which  is  still 
continued  and  is  one  of  the  largest  of  the  kind 
on  the  Hudson  river,  and  of  which  he  is  the 
president.  He  is  one  (if  the  directors  of  the 
National  Ulster  County  Hank.     He  is  an  Inde- 


pendent in  politics,  and  for  thirty-five  years 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Flatbush  school 
board.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Holland  Society 
of  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church,  in  Kingston,  of  which  he 
has  been  deacon  and  elder.  He  married,  June 
18,  1879,  Maria  V.,  daughter  of  Henry  B.  and 
Isadora  (Gibbs)  Luther,  of  Kingston,  who  was 
born  April  7,  i860.  Child:  Clarence  Abram, 
referred  to  below. 

(  VIII )  Clarence  Abram,  son  of  Clarence  P. 
and  Maria  V.  (Luther)  Hendricks,  was  born 
March  11,  1885,  and  is  now  living  in  Kingston, 
New  York.  He  is  engaged  in  the  automobile 
business  there.  He  married,  May  8,  1907,  Eli- 
zabeth McCullough.  Child:  Clarence  Philip, 
born  October  29,  1908. 


Matthew  Vassar,  founder  of 
VASSAR  the  female  college  which  bears 
his  name,  was  born  April  29, 
1792,  in  East  Dereham,  England.  His  par- 
ents, James  and  Anne  (Bennett)  Vassar, 
were  Baptists.  They  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1796,  settling  in  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York,  where  the  father  set  up  a  "home-brewed 
ale"  brewery. 

The  father's  business  was  distasteful  to  the 
son,  who  went  into  other  occupations,  but  the 
brewery  burned  down,  and  a  brother  lost  his 
life  in  an  endeavor  to  save  the  property,  and 
Matthew  Vassar  rejoined  his  father,  aided  him 
in  re-establishing  the  business,  and  acquired 
a  great  fortune.  In  1813  he  married  Catherine 
Valentine,  and  subsequently  they  traveled 
abroad.  Upon  his  return  he  expressed  a  de- 
termination to  devote  his  great  wealth  to  some 
noble  purpose.  At  that  time  there  was  not 
in  the  country  a  higher  educational  institution 
for  women,  and,  through  the  influence  of  Pro- 
fessor Milo  P.  Jewett  he  determined  to  supply 
the  want.  Accordingly,  in  1861,  Vassar  Col- 
lege was  incorporated,  and  to  it  Mr.  Vassar 
donated  200  acres  of  land  and  the  sum  of 
$400,000,  conditioned  that  the  college  should 
be  maintained  non-sectarian  in  its  teachings, 
but  under  Baptist  control.  The  college  opened 
in  1865.  with  350  pupils.  Mr.  Vassar  also 
contributed  liberally  to  local  benevolences,  and 
erected  a  Baptist  church  in  bis  native  town  in 
England.  He  died  in  Poughkeepsie,  June  23, 
1868,  while  in  the  act  of  reading  his  annual 
address    at    the    third    commencement    of   the 


CJl 


MATTHEW    VASSAR 
Founder   of   Vassar   Colli 


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ollege.     His  will  added  an  additional  $400,- 
00  to  his  original  gift. 


This  name  appears  in  various  forms 
ROSE  in  the  early  records  of  New  Eng- 
land, such  as  Rowes  and  Rowe.  It 
as  been  long  established  in  this  country,  has 
een  identified  with  its  progress,  and  has  fin- 
ished many  pioneers  who  have  cleared  the 
ay  for  civilization. 

(I)  Robert  Rose,  who  was  born  in  1594.  in 
England,  sailed  from  Ipswich,  Suffolk  county, 
England,  in  1634,  on  the  ship  "Francis,"  acc- 
ompanied by  his  wife  Margery  and  eight 
hildren.  He  was  among  the  proprietors  of 
Vatertown,  Massachusetts,  in  1636-7,  and  a 
lember  of  the  company  of  "adventurers"  who 
ttled  Wethersfield,  Connecticut.  There  he 
as  a  large  landholder,  was  constable  in  1639- 
o,  a  juror  in  1641,  representative  to  the  gen- 
ral  court  in  1641-2-3  and  held  other  official 
ppointments.  His  homestead  was  on  Broad 
reet,  on  its  southeastern  side,  embracing  three 
nd  one-quarter  acres.  In  1641  he  exchanged 
.venty  acres  in  Wethersfield  for  a  like  amount 
Bran  ford,  Connecticut,  then  known  as  Toto- 
et.  In  1644  he  removed  to  that  place,  and 
ied  there  in  1665,  his  will,  made  August  25, 
664,  being  proven  at  Branford,  April  4,  1665. 
e  bequeathed  six  pounds,  thirteen  shillings 
the  Branford  Church,  and  the  inventory 
f  his  estate  amounted  to  eight  hundred  and 
,venty-six  pounds,  nine  shillings,  and  seven 
ence.  He  married  (second),  at  Branford, 
une  7,  1664.  Elizabeth,  of  New  Haven,  widow 
f  Edward  Parker,  and  formerly  widow  of 
bhn  Potter.  Robert  Rose's  children :  John 
nd  Robert  (twins),  horn  1619;  Elizabeth, 
621  ;  Mary.  1623  ;  Samuel,  1625  ;  Daniel,  men- 
oned  below;  Dorcas,  1632;  Jonathan,  and 
lannah.  The  last  two  were  probably  born  in 
Lmerica. 

(II)  Daniel,  fourth  son  of  Robert  and  Mar- 
ery  Rose,  is  shown  by  the  statement  of  his 
ge  in  the  sailing  list  of  the  ship  "Francis"  to 
ave  been  burn  in  1631.  He  settled  in  Weth- 
rsfield,  where  he  was  fenceviewer  in  1669  and 
pund-keeper  in  1680.  He  received  land  in 
be  allotments  of  1670  and  1694.  In  1663  he 
urchncpd  one  hundred  and  twelve  acres  at 
led  Hill,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  in  what 
;  now  Glastonbury,  and  in  1666  purchased 
lie  homestead  of  Thomas  Prout,  on  the  west 


side  of  Sandy  Lane.  In  1670  he  purchased 
seventeen  acres  on  the  south  side  of  what  is 
now  Pratt's  Ferry  road,  and  sold  one  and  one- 
quarter  acres  of  this  tract  in  1683.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Goodrich,  born  November  2,  1645.  Children  : 
Elizabeth,  born  April  15,  1665;  Daniel,  Au- 
gust 20,  1667  ;  Mary,  died  young;  Hannah,  Au- 
gust 12,  1673;  John,  June  10,  1675;  Jonathan, 
mentioned  below;  Sarah,  November  2.  1  f >S r  : 
Jacob,  twin  of  Sarah  ;  Mary,  died  July  24. 
1683  ;  Abigail,  born  September  14,  1685  ;  Doro- 
thy, May  3,   1O87;  Lydia,  April  24.   1689. 

(Ill)  Jonathan,  third  son  of  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  (Goodrich)  Rose,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 30,  1679,  in  Wethersfield,  and  in  1 7 1 1  re- 
ceived a  house  and  one  and  one-half  acres  of 
land  from  his  father,  situated  on  the  north  side 
of  the  "road  to  Hartford."  He  was  haywar- 
den  of  Wethersfield  in  1701  and  fenceviewer 
in  17 14.  He  married,  February  26,  1707,  Abi- 
gail, daughter  of  Ebenezer  Hale,  of  what  is 
now  Glastonbury,  born  March  20,  1688,  died 
1791,  at  Granville,  .Massachusetts,  where  her 
sons  settled.  Children :  Jonathan,  mentioned 
below;  David,  born  September  13,  baptized 
September  18,  170*);  Dorothy,  born  June  20, 
171 1  ;  Damaris,  February  30,  1 7 1 3 . 

1  I\"  1  Jonathan  (21.  eldest  child  of  Jonathan 
(  1  1  and  Abigail  (  Hale )  Rose,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  baptized  February  2<>,  1708.  in  Weth- 
ersfield, and  was  among  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Granville,  Massachusetts,  where  he  located 
about  1736-7.  He  lived  to  the  age  of  one  hun- 
dred and  three  years,  losing  his  life  through 
the  burning  of  a  house  in  which  he  was  alone 
at  the  time.  He  had  sons :  Sharon,  Daniel 
and  Timothy.  The  last  named  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier  and  settled  in  Granville,  Ohio, 
w7here  he  became  a  judge,  and  died  in  181 5. 
David  Rose,  brother  of  Jonathan,  followed 
him  to  Granville,  Massachusetts,  and  became 
a  deacon  of  the  church  there,  but  no  record  of 
his  descendants  appears. 

(V)  Sharon,  eldest  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Rose,  had  children :  Giles,  Sharon,  Reta, 
Oliver.  Dwyer,  Mercy.  Ruth,  and  Abigail. 
Probably  one  of  these  was  the  father  of  the 
next  mentioned. 

(VII)  Rufus  Rose,  Sr.,  is  supposed  to  have 
had  an  existence,  because  the  next  mentioned 
is  known  in  the  family  records  as  Rufus  Rose, 
Jr.    The  name  of  Rufus  Rose  does  not  appear 


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in  the  town  records  of  Granville,  but  there  can 
be  little  doubt  that  he  was  among  the  descend- 
ants of   [onathan  Rose. 

(VIII)  Rufus  Rose,  Jr.,  was  married  in 
( iranville,  in  [803,  to  Orpha  Parsons,  who  was 
without  doubt  also  descendant  from  a  pioneer 
settler  in  (iranville.  of  whom  there  were  sev- 
eral bearing  that  name.  Owing  to  the  scanti- 
ness of  the  records  of  that  town  it  is  impossible 
to  trace  the  connection.  Rufus  Ruse,  Jr.,  set- 
tled m  Sherburne,  Chenango  county.  New 
York. 

(IX)  William  demons,  son  of  Rufus  (2) 
and  (  )rpha  (  Parsons  1  Rose,  was  born  in  1807, 
in  Sherburne,  died  in  Port  Jervis,  New  York, 
in  [873  lie  left  home  on  attaining  his  ma- 
im m  and  obtained  employment  on  the  Dela- 
ware &  Hudson  Canal,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ally promoted  and  served  over  forty  years, 
being  for  a  long  period  of  that  time  a  division 
superintendent.  I  Ie  married,  in  [832,  Lavina 
Shinier,  daughter  of  Abraham  Shinier,  of 
Montague.  New  Jersey,  and  granddaughter  oi 
Captain  Abraham  Shinier,  of  the  revolution- 
ary period.  This  family  is  said  by  tradition  to 
have  come  originally  from  Germany. 

(  X  )  William  Rufus.  son  of  William  de- 
mons and  Lavina  (  Shinier  1  Ruse,  was  born 
April  6,  1834,  in  Cuddebackville,  <  (range 
county,  New  York,  died  in  Ellenville,  Ulster 
county,  September  23,  1909.  For  more  than 
forty-five  years  he  conducted  a  mercantile 
business  at  Phillipsport,  Sullivan  county,  New 
York,  on  the  line  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal.  For  three  terms,  of  three  years  each. 
he  served  as  superintendent  of  the  poor,  and 
in  iSijn  \\;is  a  member  of  the  state  assembly. 
elected  as  a  Republican  from  Sullivan  county. 
In  1901,  he  removed  to  Ellenville,  and  for 
seven  years  was  president  of  the  Home  Na- 
tional Bank  of  that  town,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  original  directors,  and  for  many  years 
vice-president. 

He  married,  in  [862,  Eleanor  Jane,  daughter 
of  lames  and  Catherine  (Gumaer)  Graham,  of 
Wurtsboro.  Sullivan  county,  New  York,  and 
they  had  children:  Catherine  Lavina;  James 
Graham,  and  William  demons. 

James  Graham,  father  of  Mrs.  Rose,  was 
born  in  1 8 10,  in  Montgomery,  <  >ran<re  county. 
New  York,  died  in  Wurtsboro.  in  [888,  son  of 
James  and  Cynthia  (Brown)  Graham,  and  de- 
scended from  one  of  the  early  Scotch  settlers 
of  Orange  county.      His  wife,  Catherine  Gu- 


maer,  was   born   in    1810,   at    Wurtsboro.   and 
died  in    1884.  daughter  of  Jacob  Gumaer  and: 
Ins    wife.    Margaret    Cuddebeck,    married    inji 
1803.     Jacob  Gumaer  was  born  in   1780. 

(  XI )  James  Graham,  senior  son  of  William 
Rufus  and  Eleanor  Jane  (Graham)  Rose,  was 
born  August  15,  i860,  at  Phillipsport.  He  was 
educated  in  the  district  schools  of  the  vicinity 
and  Delaware  Academy,  at  Delhi,  New  York. 
In  his  nineteenth  year  he  went  to  Kingston  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal  Company  as  a  clerk.  1  [ere  he  won  rapid 
promotion  and  was  given  charge  of  the  general 
outside  work,  under  the  title  of  superintendent 
of  docks,  and  this  continued  until  the  canal 
was  abandoned.  His  energy  and  executive 
capacity  had  not  been  overlooked  by  his  con* 
temporaries,  and  in  [899  his  services  were 
secured  bv  S.  D.  Coykendall,  having  charge 
of  various  interests  of  this  large  operator.  Hei 
is  now  president  of  the  Consolidated  Rosen-i 
dale  Cement  Company,  purchasing  agent  of 
the  Ulster  &  Delaware  Railroad  Company, 
and  the  Cornell  Steamboat  interests.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Rondout  Savings  Bank,  ship- 
ping agent  of  the  North  River  Coal  Company, 
secretary  and  director  of  the  Kingston  Cnal 
Company,  a  director  of  the  Rose  &  Douglas 
Company,  and  interested  in  various  other  en- 
terprises. He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Industrial 
Home  of  Kingston,  and  a  member  of  the  Ron-; 
dout.   Kingston,  ami  Twaalfskill  clubs. 


The  surname  Piatt  has  been  early 
PLATT      found     in     many    countries,     the 

word  meaning  an  open  level  piecei 
of  land.  In  Norman-French  the  name  wast: 
spelled  Pradt,  then  Pratt ;  in  German,  Platz.z 
Coats-of-arms  were  granted  to  half  a  dozen 
different  branches  of  the  family  in  England 
as  early  as  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  and  somen 
as  early  as  1326.  Senator  Orville  Hitchcock 
Piatt  was  descended  through  both  father 
and  mother  from  long  lines  of  New  Eng- 
land farmers,  who  for  many  generations  held 
prominent  station  in  the  communities  int 
which  they  lived.  They  held  offices  in 
church  and  town  affairs,  were  landowners, 
deacons,  tithingmen,  and  captains  of  militia. 
One  ancestor  was  among  those  who 
marched  to  Fishkill  in  the  Burgoyne  cam- 
paign of  October,  1777,  to  reinforce  General 
Putnam.  It  was  a  sturdy,  loyal,  patriotic 
efficient  New  England  stock. 


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( I )  Deacon  Richard  Piatt  is  believed  to 
)e  the  Richard  who  was  baptized  Septem- 
ber 28,  1603,  son  of  Joseph  Piatt,  in  the 
)arish  of  Bovington,  Hertfordshire,  Eng- 
and.  He  settled  as  early  as  1638  at  New 
rlaven,  Connecticut,  and  was  one  of  a  party 

f  sixty-one  who  formed  a  church  settle- 
nent  at  Milford  in  the  same  colony,  being 
he  first  settlers  in  that  place  November  20, 
639.  At  that  time  he  had  four  in  his  fam- 
ly.  He  was  chosen  deacon  at  Milford  in 
,669.  His  will  is  dated  January  24,  1683-84, 
tnd  bequeathed  to  each  of  his  nineteen 
Tandsons.  In  August,  1889,  a  memorial 
tone,  suitably  inscribed  to  the  pioneers,  was 
placed  in  the  new  bridge  over  the  Mapa- 
(vaug  at  Milford.  Children:  1.  Mary,  mar- 
ried (first)  May  1,  165 1 ,  Luke  Atkinson: 
second),  January  3,  1667,  Thomas  Wether- 
:1I.  2.  John,  settled  in  Norwalk ;  married 
-lannah  Clark.  3.  Isaac,  of  whom  further. 
j..  Sarah.  5.  Epenetus,  baptized  July  12, 
',640:  associated  with  his  brother  Isaac  in  his 
faried  experience.  6.  Hannah,  born  October  1. 
643.  7.  Josiah,  1645.  8.  Joseph,  1649;  mar- 
Ed,  1680,  Mary  Kellogg. 

(II)  Isaac,  son  of  Deacon  Richard  Piatt, 
yas  with  his  brother  Epenetus  enrolled 
Lmong  the  fifty-seven  landowners  of  Hunt- 
ngton,  Long  Island,  in  1666.  They  were 
loubtless  residents  there  for  some  years 
arlier.  Both  were  admitted  freemen,  May 
2,    1664,    by   the  general    assembly   of    Con- 

•lecticut,  then  having  jurisdiction  over  Long 
sland  under  the  old  charter,  and  their 
aames  appear  among  the  proprietors  in  the 
jatent  of  1666,  and  again  in  the  patent  of 
668.  Both  were  imprisoned  in  New  York 
)y  Governor  Andros  in  1681  for  attending 
I  meeting  of  delegates  of  the  several  towns 
o  obtain  "a  redress  of  grievances  under  his 
irbitrary  rule  "  After  their  release  a  vote 
jvas  passed  at  a  town  meeting  to  pay  their 
expenses.  He  and  his  brother  were  among 
he  sterling  patriots  of  the  time,  fully  rec- 
)gnizing  and  claiming  their  civil  and  re- 
igious  rights.  He  bought  land  at  Hunting- 
on  in  1679  of  John  Greene,  and  of  Jonathan 
lammet  May  15,  1^3.  He  was  recorder 
hi  Huntington  in  1687,  was  captain  of  mili- 
ia.  and  it  is  said  of  him  that  "he  held  every 
jffice  of  consequence  in  the  gift  of  his  towns- 
pen.''  His  death  occurred  at  Huntington 
Inly   31,    [691.       He    married    (first)    at    Mil- 


ford, Connecticut,  March  12,  1640,  Phebe 
Smith;  (second)  at  Huntington  about  twen- 
ty years  later,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jonas 
Wood.  Children,  all  by  the  second  mar- 
riage: Elizabeth,  born  September  15.  1665; 
Jonas,  August  16,  1667;  John,  born  June  29, 
1669;  Mary,  October  26,  1674:  Joseph,  Sep- 
tember 8,   1(177;  Jacob,  September  29,   [682. 

(  III  )  Little  is  known  about  John.  Joseph 
and  Jacob,  sons  of  Isaac  Piatt.  It  is  pre- 
sumable that  one  of  them  was  the  father  of 
Benoni,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  Benoni,  son  of  Piatt,  appears 

as  early  as  1730  in  North  Castle,  Westchester 
county,  New  York,  where  the  records  show- 
he  was  a  town  officer.  His  will  was  made 
May  20,  1 761,  and  proved  May  14,  1763,  in- 
dicating that  he  died  in  the  latter  year.  His 
widow  Hannah  made  her  will  March  8.  1764, 
and  this  was  proved  February  2^.  1767. 
Children:  Jonathan;  Benoni  (2).  of  whom 
further;  and  Abigail. 

(V)  Benoni  (2),  son  of  Benoni  (1)  and 
Hannah  Piatt,  was  born  in  1734  at  North 
Castle,  and  resided  on  the  paternal  home- 
stead, where  he  died  November  3,  1796. 
Children:  Stephen,  Cynthia,  Hannah,  Abi- 
gail, Deborah,  and  Benoni  (3),  of  whom  fur- 
ther. 

(VI)  Benoni  (3),  son  of  Benoni  (2),  Piatt, 
was  born  August  8,  1764,  in  North  Castle, 
died  there  May  13,  1824.  He  married  (  first ) 
Charity  Reynolds,  and  (second)  Betsy 
Brush.  Children  of  the  first  marriage:  Or- 
samus,  died  without  issue;  Rachel,  born  Oc- 
tober 15,  1787,  married  O.  Marvin,  and  died 
in  her  twenty-fourth  year,  leaving  no  issue ; 
Cynthia,  died  in  her  eighteenth  year:  Hor- 
ton,  born  August  9.  1792,  died  December 
18,  1867;  Stephen,  June  24,  1794;  Charity, 
April  10,  1796;  Reynolds,  October  15.  1798; 
William,  December  1,  1801  ;  Jane  Ann.  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1804.  Children  of  second  wife:  Ed- 
ward Brush,  born  October  9,  1811;  Lewis 
C,  of  whom  further;  Jesse  Holly.  Decem- 
ber 3,   1820. 

(  VII)  Lewis  Canfield,  son  of  Benoni  (3) 
and  Betsy  (Brush)  Piatt,  was  born  March 
7,  1818,  in  North  Castle,  died  at  White 
Plains  March  13,  1893.  In  early  life  he  was 
a  student  in  the  academy  at  Bedford  Village 
in  his  native  county.  He  was  graduated 
from  Union  College  with  the  class  of  1834, 
one  which   included  several  men  since  prom- 


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inent  in  the  history  of  the  state.  Taking  up 
the  study  of  law  with  Samuel  E.  Lyon,  a 
leading  lawyer  in  White  Plains,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1843,  and  immediately 
opened  an  office  for  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  White  Plains.  Being  industrious 
and  painstaking  he  quickly  built  up  a  very 
satisfactory  practice,  ami  in  more  than  forty 
years  of  activity  at  White  Plains  he  trans- 
acted a  great  volume  of  business,  especially 
in  matters  connected  with  real  estate  and 
probate.  To  the  very  last  of  his  life  he  was 
an  indefatigable  worker,  and  his  attention 
to  business  employed  many  hours  a  day.  In 
1879  n's  son<  William  P.  Piatt,  became  bis 
partner  in  practice,  and  the  firm  of  L.  C.  & 
W.  P.  Piatt  long  ranked  among  the  leaders 
at  the  Westchester  bar. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Piatt  was  identified  polit- 
ically with  the  Whig  party,  and  in  1846  he 
was  elected  on  its  ticket  as  supervisor  of 
the  town  of  White  Plains.  In  the  following 
year  he  was  elected  surrogate  of  the  county, 
and  by  re-election  served  two  terms  of 
four  years  each.  I  le  was  the  first  elected 
surrogate,  the  office  having  been  previously 
filled  by  appointment.  During  the  last  year 
of  his  term  as  surrogate  he  was  made  can- 
didate for  county  clerk  on  a  fusion  ticket 
composed  of  Whigs  and  Democrats,  as  op- 
posed to  the  American  ticket  whose  candi- 
date was  John  P.  Jenkins  Westchester 
county  was  then  a  stronghold  of  Know- 
nothingism,  and  the  fusion  ticket  was  de- 
feated. In  the  following  year  the  Republi- 
can party  became  thoroughly  organized,  and 
Mr.  Piatt  was  among  those  who  joined  its 
ranks.  He  thus  continued  until  after  the 
civil  war,  which  settled  many  of  the  issues 
that  gave  rise  to  the  Republican  party.  Mr. 
Piatt  next  supported  the  Liberal  ticket, 
whose  presidential  candidate  was  Horace 
1  .n  1  lev,  and  he  was  urged  by  both  Demo- 
cratic and  Liberal  leaders  to  become  candi- 
date for  congress  on  the  same  ticket.  He 
declined,  but  thenceforward  was  a  consistent 
supporter  of  the  Democratic  party.  After 
1870  he  was  for  two  terms  a  trustee  of  the 
village  of  White  Plains.  In  1883  at  the 
urgent  solicitation  of  leading  Democrats  of 
the  town  he  became  candidate  for  super- 
visor against  Elisha  Horton,  a  popular  Re- 
publican, who  had  been  repeatedly  elected 
in  a  town  whose  normal  majority  was  Dem- 


ocratic. In  this  election  Mr.  Piatt  received 
a  splendid  majority  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty-eight.  For  nine  successive  years  he 
was  the  unanimous  nominee  of  the  Democratic 
party,  and  with  the  exception  of  one 
year  his  election  was  practically  unopposed 
by  the  Republicans.  His  death  just  before 
an  election  prevented  his  choice  for  another 
term,  lie  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  best 
informed  members  of  the  county  board  of 
supervisors,  and  for  a  number  of  years  he 
was  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee  of 
that  body. 

Mi'.  Piatt  became  a  Free  Mason  May  15, 
1859,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
the  oldest  member  of  White  Plains  Lodge, 
Xo.  473.  lie  was  a  regular  attendant  and 
liberal  supporter  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  his  funeral  held  there  was  attended  as 
a  last  mark  of  respect  by  a  great  throng, 
many  of  whom  could  not  find  accommoda- 
tions within  the  church.  Many  prominent 
citizens  were  present,  and  the  fellow  crafts- 
men of  his  fraternity,  who  passed  resolu- 
tions of  respect  to  his  memory,  as  did  also 
the  courts.  Rev.  Dr.  A.  P.  Macoubrey,  his 
pastor,  who  could  not  be  present  at  the  funeral 
on  account  of  illness,  wrote  the  following 
tribute,   which   was   read   on   that   occasion: 

Nothing  since  1  have  beer  laid  aside  in  illness  has 
moved  me  to  so  deep  regret  as  that  1  am  unable  to 
stand  in  my  place  in  his  funeral  services  and  utter  my 
tribute  of  respect  and  love  for  Mr.  Lewis  C.  Piatt.  I 
did  not  know  that  he  was  ill  till  the  day  upon  the 
evening  of  which  he  died.  I  at  once  sent  words  of 
greeting  from  my  sick  room  to  his.  hut  ere  they 
could  reach  him  God  had  seen  it  best  that  the  end 
of  the  earthly  life  should  he,  and  the  rest  eternal 
anil  perfect  should  he  his  (  )ne  cannot  hut  be  grate-1 
ful  that  the  experience  of  long  distressing-  illness 
was  not  his  ere  the  linger  of  God's  silence  was  put! 
upon  his  lips.  (  Ine  could  not  hut  he  grateful,  too, 
for  the  spirit  that  was  his  I  have  wondered  ifl 
ever  any  came  to  know  him  as  he  really  was  with- 
out loving  him,  his  was  so  eminently  and  really  an 
unselfish  spirit.  How  many  stories  of  his  kindness 
will  he  told  in  the  houses  in  this  community.  He 
was  so  frank  and  honest  in  every  revelation  of  him- 
sel  I    that   all   came    instinctiveh    to   love   him. 

1  Ine  in  another  part  of  this  state,  who  himself  had 
held  a  position  of  influence,  once  said  to  me  that, 
from  his  abilitj  and  spirit  in  the  days  of  his  power, 
Mr.  Piatt  could  have  occupied  the  highest  posi- 
tion in  our  state  had  the  spirit  of  ambition  pos- 
sessed him.  I  have  known  him  but  in  these  years 
of  his  age  since  his  three-scorce  years  and  ten.  There 
has  been  indeed  in  his  physique  the  suggestion  of 
years;  but  one  forgot  this  in  his  active  life,  quick 
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.11  the  walfare  of  the  community  and  of  those  with 
vhom  he  was  associated  in  life.  Who  that  knew 
im  was  ready  to  have  him  go  hence?  But  the  Lord 
as  chosen,  and  there  is  never  error  in  His  judg- 
ment or  failure  in  His  love;  and  gently  as  a  father 
ealeth  with  his  little  child  He  has  taken  him  unto 
limself. 

Shut  within  my  room  these  weeks,  I  have  no  word 
rom  him  in  his  illness  to  bear  unto  my  speech; 
ut  I  know  of  his  simple,  earnest  faith  in  Christ 
nd  of  the  tender  turning  of  his  spirit  toward  the 
ross,  through  which  alone  our  spirits  know  par- 
on.  cherish  hope  and  pass  unto  the  life  eternal. 

In  the  vision  of  my  congregation  as  it  now 
omes  before  me.  no  face  is  more  distinct  than  his. 
mways  was  he  in  his  place  in  the  Sabbath  morn- 
ig,  and  in  the  Sabbath  afternoon  service  also, 
stening  with  an  earnestness  that  made  my  gaze 
ften  seek  his  face.  I  shall  so  miss  his  presence 
rom  the  inspirations  and  helps  in  the  worship  of 
ie  Lord's  house!  However  early  I  was  in  enter- 
ig  the  church  I  was  rarely  there  before  him.     Often 

few  words  of  salutation  would  be  exchanged  on 
ly  way  to  the  pulpit.  I  must  wait  now  to  see  his 
ace  again  and  get  his  greeting,  and  see  the  revela- 
ion  of  his  tender,  true  spirit  until  it  is  in  our 
ather's  house  on  high. 

And  so  we  go  hence,  one  by  one. 

He  married  Laura  Popham,  born  in  Scars- 
ale,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Eliza 
Hill )  Popham.  Children  :  Benoni ;  Wil- 
iam  Popham,  of  whom  further;  Lewis  C. 
2),  Mary  Shinbrook,  Alathea  Hill,  Eliza 
fill.  Julia  Wood,  and  Theodora. 

(VIII)  William  Popham,  second  son  of 
.ewis  C.  and  Laura  (Popham)  Piatt,  was 
orn  May  16,  1858.  in  White  Plains.  He 
as  reared  and  educated  in  that  village, 
ompleting  his  literary  studies  in  the  high 
chool.  He  began  the  study  of  law  with  his 
ather,  and  after  thorough  preparation  was 
dmitted  to  the  bar  May  15,  1879,  the  day 
:e  became  legally  of  age,  the  law  not  con- 
idering  the  fraction*  of  a  day  in  determining 
yhen  one  attains  his  majority.  He  at  once 
ecame  a  partner  in  his  father's  law  practice, 
nd  until  the  death  of  the  latter  the  firm  con- 
inued  under  the  title  of  L.  C.  &  W.  P.  Piatt. 
ror  some  time  after  his  father's  death  Mr. 
'latt  continued  practice  alone,  and  sttbse- 
uently  formed  a  partnership  with  Farring- 
Dn  M.  Thompson,  under  the  style  of  Piatt 
1  Thompson.  Mr.  Piatt  has  always  en- 
aged  in  general  practice  and  is  well  versed 
1  all  branches  of  jurisprudence.  In  1889 
le  was  nominated  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
or  district  attorney  of  Westchester  county, 
nd  was  elected  for  a  term  of  three  years, 
before    the    close    of    this    term    he    was    re- 


nominated and  again  elected.  In  1896  he 
was  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  office 
of  county  judge,  and  was  defeated  by  a 
small  majority  in  that  election,  which  swept 
nearly  all  the  Republican  candidates  in  the 
United  States  into  office.  The  average  ma- 
jority of  the  candidates  of  this  party  in 
Westchester  county  at  that  election  was  be- 
tween two  and  three  thousand.  He  was  sub- 
sequently again  a  candidate  for  district  at- 
torney, and  in  1901  was  elected  county 
judge.  (  )n  his  retirement  from  the  office  of 
district  attorney  in  1895  he  resumed  the 
private  practice  of  law,  and  has  been  con- 
cerned in  much  of  the  important  litigation 
held  in  Westchester  county. 

He  is  especially  distinguished  as  a  trial 
lawyer,  being  skilled  in  the  examination  of 
witnesses,  and  adept  in  the  introduction  of 
testimony  on  his  own  side  of  the  case.  Ik- 
was  retained  in  the  defence  of  many  homi- 
cide cases  besides  those  he  prosecuted  when 
district  attorney.  One  of  the  important 
cases  entrusted  to  his  care  involved  the  es- 
tate of  John  McCaffery  in  the  probate  court 
of  Chicago,  Illinois,  in  which  large  sums 
were  at  stake.  Judge  Piatt's  success  in  his 
chosen  profession  has  been  due  to  the  in- 
dustrious application  of  his  talents  and  to 
his  keen  and  brilliant  mind.  His  prepara- 
tion of  cases  has  been  marked  by  thorough- 
ness, and  he  was  always  found  well  pre- 
pared for  any  contingency  in  the  trial  of  his 
cases.  Among  the  most  notable  of  his  crim- 
inal cases  was  the  defence  of  Frank  Brouty, 
charged  with  the  murder  of  Constable  Wood 
of  Mount  Vernon.  After  a  stubborn  con- 
test, which  was  carried  through  the  court 
of  appeals,  the  defendant  was  convicted,  but 
his  life  was  saved,  and  the  victory  was  one 
which  reflected  great  credit  upon  the  ability 
of  Mr.  Piatt  as  a  trial  lawyer.  Judge  Piatt 
is  a  vestryman  of  Grace  Church  at  White 
Plains.  He  is  also  an  active  member  of 
White  Plains  Lodge,  No.  473,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  the  Medico-Legal 
Society  of  the  United  States ;  the  Demo- 
cratic Club,  of  New  York  City ;  and  the 
Knollwood  Country  Club,  of  White  Plains. 
He  is  at  all  times  and  under  all  circum- 
stances a  gentleman  of  dignified  and  affable 
manners,  a  champion  of  truth  and  right,  and 
a  possessor  of  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his 
contemporaries. 


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He  married,  October  i,  1890,  Sarah  Dean, 
born   April  28,    1861,  daughter  of   Moses  W. 

and  Sarah  (  Stuart  1  Dean.  They  have  two 
sons:  Stuart  (Dean)  Piatt,  horn  February 
-'4,  [896;  and  William  Popham,  Jr.,  August 
[8,  hkx).  Their  handsome  country  residence 
is  situated  within  the  corporate  limits  of 
White  Plains,  and  is  the  scene  of  generous 
hospitality  and  the  home  of  many  cultured 
gatherings. 


The    Neal    family,    of    Ellenville, 

NEAL  New  York,  is  of  English  descent, 
hut  the  name  is  also  found  in  a 
slightly  varied  form  in  Ireland  and  Scotland, 
[lie  .American  ancestor  of  the  branch  of  the 
family,  here  under  discussion,  came  to  this 
country  about  the  year  1620. 

(  1  )  —     Neal,  whi.)  lived  and  died  in  the 

state  of  Maine,  was  a  soldier  dming  the  revo- 
lutionary war.  He  reared  a  large  family,  the 
names  of  his  children  being  as  follows  :  I  )avid, 
Rufus,  Joshua,  Samuel,  Mercy,  Susan.  Pa- 
tience, Iluldah,  Jane,  Hannah,  William,  see 
forward  ;  Sarah,  Keziah. 

( II )  William,  son  of Neal,  was  born 

April  23,  1788,  at  Berwick,  Maine,  where  he 
lived  until  1812.  lie  then  removed  to  Lisbon, 
Maine,  and  his  death  occurred  there,  June  12, 
(868.  In  his  early  manhood  he  was  engaged 
in  the  profession  of  teaching,  hut  later  in  life 
made  farming  his  chief  occupation.  Like  his 
father,  he  was  a  brave  defender  of  the  rights 
of  his  country,  and  was  an  active  participant 
in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  Mehitable, 
who  died  in  1866,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Kil- 
gnie.  a  prosperous  farmer,  who  had  been  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  the  revolution.  They 
had  children:  Edwin,  William,  Mary  J.,  Em- 
meline  P.,  William  K.,  Margaret,  and  Albert 
(  '.,  see  forward. 

(Ill  I  Albert  ('..  son  of  William  and  Mehit- 
able (  Kilgore  1  Xeal,  was  horn  in  Lisbon, 
Maine,  April  8,  1825,  and  died  at  Ellenville, 
New  York,  December  \(>,  1004.  Mr.  Xeal 
was  engaged  as  a  contractor  from  1850  until 
[861,  his  business  being  that  of  loading  cotton 
on  board  ships.  Upon  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war  he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of 
paymaster  in  the  army.  In  1866  he  returned 
to  his  home,  where  he  became  pension  attor- 
ney, prosecuting  claims  against  the  govern- 
ment.     He   was   advanced   in   years   when   he 


finally  retired  to  a  life  of  ease  and  rest.  His 
political  affiliations  were  with  the  Republican 
party,  and  fraternally  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Eellows.  Mr. 
Neal  married,  December  31,  1849,  Octavia  T. 
Whitney,  of  Lisbon,  Maine,  who  was  born 
February  9,  1828,  and  died  February  14,  1889. 
They  had  two  children,  born  in  Lisbon:  Ben-] 
jamin  Franklin,  see  forward;  and  Mary  J., 
who  married  Thomas  J.  Home,  of  Lisbon 
Falls,  Maine. 

(IV)  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin  Xeal,  son  of 
Albert  C.  and  Octavia  T.  (Whitney)  Neal, 
was  born  at  Lisbon.  Maine,  February  25,; 
1853.  There  he  attended  the  district  schools 
until  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  when  he  be- 
came a  student  in  the  high  school  at  Lisbon 
Falls,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1 87 1.  For  a  short  time  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  clerk  in  a  store;  then  in  the  fall 
of  1873  ne  matriculated  at  Bowdoin  College 
and  graduated  from  this  institution  in  1876, 
when  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  con- 
ferred upon  him.  Entering  the  medical  de-i 
partment  of  Dartmouth  College,  he  in  duel 
course  of  time  was  awarded  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  Dr.  Xeal  at  once  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Lincolnville,  Waldo  county.  Maine,  re-  1 
maining  there  for  a  period  of  four  years. 
One  year  was  then  spent  at  Gardner,  whence- 
he  removed  to  Belgrade,  Maine,  and  at  the 
end  of  six  years,  he  left  this  town,  went  to 
New  York  and  there  took  a  course  in  medi- 
cine and  surgery  at  the  Post  Graduate  College. 
Having  completed  this  course  in  November, 
18SS,  he  went  to  Ellenville,  New  York,  where 
he  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  successful 
practice  of  the  profession  to  which  he  is  de- 
voted. Dr.  Neal  is  also  a  registered  New] 
York  state  pharmacist,  is  president  of  the 
Doyle  Drug  Company,  of  Ellenville,  Xew 
York,  and  is  a  trustee  and  director  of  the 
Poiip-hkeepsie  Utility  Company.  Profession! 
ally  he  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  State  Medi- 
cal Association,  the  Waldo  County  Medical 
Association  and  the  Kennebec  County  Medical 
Association  His  political  support  is  rrjven  to 
the  Democratic  party.  His  fraternal  affilia- 
tions are  as  follows:  Wawarsing  I  odge.  No. 
s8j.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  Wawarsing 
Chanter.  No.  246,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Ronl 
dont  Commandery,  No.  52,  Knights  Templar; 


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[ecca  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine, 
:  New  York  City:  Independent  Order  of 
>dd  Fellows ;  Benevolent  and  Protective  Or- 
er  of  Elks ;  and  George  Innes  Council,  Junior 
irder  of  United  American  Mechanics. 
Dr.  Neal  married,  October  12,  1881,  Anna 
.  Marson,  who  was  born  in  Pittston,  Maine, 
•ecember   18,   1855. 


The  founder  of  the  Bronk  fam- 
BRONK  ily  in  America  was  Jonas  Bronk, 
born  in  Copenhagen,  Denmark, 
led  at  Bronxland,  Westchester  county,  New 
ork.  He  married  Antonia  Slagboom.  He 
ime  to  America  in  1639  from  Amsterdam, 
l  his  own  ship  "Fire  of  Troy,"  a  private 
rmed  vessel,  accompanied  by  his  friend  and 
ficer  in  the  Danish  army,  Captain  Jochiem 
ietersen  Kuyter.  He  brought  a  cargo  of 
Lttle  and  each  was  attended  by  his  family  and 
number  of  farmers  or  herdsmen.  He  was 
man  of  means,  and  loaned  money  in  large 
ams.  He  was  of  a  family  long  distinguished 
1  Sweden,  though  probably  himself  from 
openhagen.  He  located  his  land  north  of 
le  Great  Kill  and  built  a  "stone  house  cov- 
"ed  with  tiles,  a  barn,  tobacco  house,  two 
irracks,  etc."  He  later  purchased  from 
le  Indians  five  hundred  acres  on  the  now 
ronx  river,  later  included  in  the  Manor  of 
Iorrisania.  He  was  a  devoted  Lutheran,  and 
rought  with  him  Luther's  Catechism  and  a 
}lio  Danish  Bible.  From  it  he  drew  a  name 
)r  his  home  "Emaus."  It  was  here  that 
•irector  Kieft  sent  delegates  to  meet  the  In- 
ian  chiefs  and  made  a  treaty.  This  treaty 
■as  followed  by  the  unproved  murder  of  the 
idians  for  which  they  exacted  frightful  ven- 
eance  upon  the  Dutch  settlers.  It  was  at 
us  time  that  Jonas  Bronk  met  his  death,  per- 
iaps  at  the  hands  of  the  savages,  but  as  his 
roperty  was  spared,  they  may  have  been 
uiltless.  "Seignor"  Bronk,  as  he  was  styled, 
lust  be  rated  above  the  ordinary  colonist.  His 
)anish  and  Latin  library,  stored  with  law, 
istory,  and  books  of  divinity,  indicate  taste, 
ulture  and  piety.  His  widow  Antonia, 
aughter  of  Juriaen  Slagboom,  whom  he  mar- 
ied  in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  married  (sec- 
nd)  Arent  Van  Curler,  of  Rensselaerwyck. 
■he  died  at  Schenectady.  New  York,  Decem- 
er  19,  1676. 

(II)    Picter  Jonasen.   son   of  Jonas   Bronk, 
/as  born  in  Holland,  died  in  Coxsackie,  New 


York,  1669.  He  was  a  brewer  of  Beverwyck 
as  early  as  1645,  owned  houses  and  lots  which 
he  sold  in  1662,  and  purchased  land  in  Cox- 
sackie, which  was  the  colonial  grant  known  as 
the  Bronk  patent,  upon  which  he  settled.  His 
wife  was  Hilletje  Tyssinck. 

(HI)  Jan,  son  of  Pieter  Jonasen  Bronk, 
was  born  in  Albany,  New  York.  1650,  died 
at  Coxsackie,  New  York,  1742.  He  built  a 
saw  and  grist  mill.  He  married  Commertje 
Leendertse  Conyn.  His  will  speaks  of  five 
sons  only  :  Pieter,  Jonas,  Phillip,  Casper,  and 
Leendert  Janse.  Daughters,  Antje  and 
Helena. 

(  IV)  Leendert  Janse  (Leonard  Janse),  son 
of  Jan  Bronk,  was  born  about  1699.  He  mar- 
ried, February  26,  1717,  Anna  de  Wandalaer. 
Children :  Jan  Leendertse,  Sara,  Commertje 
and  Catharina. 

(  V)  Jan  Leendertse,  son  of  Leendert  Janse 
(Leonard  Janse)  Bronk,  was  baptized  July 
'4.  i7-.v  'bed  1794.  He  married  (first)  June 
J7.  1/4".  Elsje  Van  Buren :  (second)  Susan- 
na Hotaling  ( Hooghteeling).  Elsje  Van 
Buren  was  a  descendant  of  Cornelis  Maase 
and  Catalina  Martense  Van  Buren,  who  came 
to  America  on  the  ship  "Rensselaerwyck" ; 
Cornelis  M.,  died  1643,  his  wife,  1648.  Their 
son,  Martin  Cornelis  Van  Buren,  was  born  in 
Houten,    province    of    Utrecht.      He   married 

Maritje  .     Their  son,  Tieter  Martinse 

Van  Buren,  of  Kinderhook  (1720),  married 
Arientje  Barentse,  January  15,  1693.  Their 
son,  Barent  Van  Buren,  married  (first)  De- 
cember 29,  1719,  Maria  Winne,  daughter  of 
Livinus  Winne  and  Willempje  ( Viele)  Winne, 
widow  of  Simon  Schermerhorn,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Peter  Winne,  from  Ghent  in 
Flanders,  and  Jannetje  (Adams)  Winne,  of 
Friesland.  Their  daughter,  Elsje  Van  Buren, 
married  Jan  Leendertse  Bronk.  They  had 
an   only  son  Leonard. 

(  VI  )  Leonard  Bronk,  only  child  of  Tan 
Leendertse  and  Elsje  (Van  Buren)  Bronk, 
was  born  May  11,  1751,  died  April  22,  1828. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  state  as- 
sembly. 1786-98;  of  the  state  senate,  1800. 
Was  first  judge  of  the  court  of  appeals  of 
Greene  county ;  was  an  officer  in  the  revolu- 
tionary army,  first  as  a  lieutenant,  later  as 
captain,  and  was  discharged  with  rank  of 
lieutenant-colonel ;  was  supervisor  of  Albany 
county.  He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Gen- 
eral  Schuyler  and   General  Gansevoort.      He 


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married  (first)  January  11,  1779,  Tryntje, 
daughter  of  Robert  Van  Denbergh ;  (second) 
Albertje  Van  Buren.  Tryntje  (Catherine) 
Van  Denbergh  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  and 
granddaughter  of  Richard  Janse  Van  Den- 
bergh and  Catherine  (Tryntje)  Houghtaling 
(Hotaling),  who  were  married  November  13, 
1699.  Catherine  was  a  sister  of  Matthys 
Houghtaling,  born  [644,  died  [796.  Robert 
Van     Denbergh     married    -  -     Brandow. 

Their  daughter  Tryntje  (  Catherine  )  married 
Hon  Leonard  Bronk.  Children  of  Leonard 
and  Tryntje  (Catherine)  Bronk;  Elsie,  bom 
December  23.  1782,  married.  November  27, 
\~<)').  in  Kinderhook,  Rev.  Jacob  Sickles;  and 
Leonard,  born  June  29,  171)7,  married  Maria, 
daughter  of    Dr.   John   Ely. 


According  to  Schoonmak- 
HOORNBEEK  er's  "History  of  King- 
ston," we  rind  that  the 
Hoornbeek  family  of  America,  one  of  the  old- 
est Dutch  families,  was  founded  by  Warnaar 
Hoornbeek,  who  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 
in  Ulster  county,  New  York,  lie  was  a  man 
of  influence  in  the  community  and  reared  a 
large  family,  having  eighteen  children  by  his 
two  wives,  lie  married  (first)  Anna,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  de  Horges  and  Eva  Albertse 
Bratt,  anil   (second)   Grietze  Tyssen. 

(II)  Johannis.  son  of  Warnaar  and  <  irietze 
(Tyssen)  Hoornbeek,  was  a  farmer  in  Ulster 
county.  New  York. 

(III)  Johannis  (2),  son  of  Johannis  (1) 
Hoornbeek,  was  a  farmer  and  blacksmith,  and 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  political  affairs 
of  his  time  as  a  supporter  of  the  Democratic 
party,  lie  was  the  first  supervisor  from  the 
town  of  Wawarsing,  serving  from  April  1. 
i8of>  to  1810,  and  when  he  was  again  elected, 
served  from  [816  to  1817;  and  later  he  served 
from  1827  to  1831.  He  married  Ciertrude  Du 
Bois,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Louis  Du  Bois, 
who  was  one  of  the  twelve  patentees  of  New 
Palz,  she  being  of  the  fourth  generation  in  this 
country.  They  had  children:  Calvin,  see 
forward;  [ohn,  Methusalem,  Cornelius,  Philip 
D.  B. 

(IV)  Calvin,  son  of  Johannis  (2)  Hoorn- 
beek, was  horn  in  the  town  of  Wawarsing. 
Ulster  county.  New  York.  September  17,  1813, 
died  March  31,  1892.  He  received  a  meagre 
education    in    his   native   town,   and    after    his 


marriage  settled  on  a  farm  at  Napanoch,  New  1 
York.  Later  he  went  to  Liberty ville,  township 
of  <  iardner.  where  he  kept  a  store  for  a  while, 
and  then  moved  back  to  his  old  home  town  of 
Wawarsing,  where  he  managed  his  farm  and 
was  with  his  brother,  John  Hoornbeek,  in  the 
tanning  business.  Later  he  left  this  farm  in 
Warwarsing  and  moved  to  New  1'altz,  where 
he  resided  one  year.  He  then  moved  back  to' 
Napanoch,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
in  [892.  lie  was  a  Democrat  and  served  his 
town  as  supervisor  for  several  terms,  and  his 
comity  one  term  as  county  treasurer.  He  mar- 
ried Catharine  DePuy.  December  20,  1832. 
Their  children:  John  C,  see  forward;  Maria, 
Louis  D.  R.  Stephen  E.  D.,  Elenora,  Cath-i 
arine  B. 

(  V  )  [ohn  C.  son  of  Calvin  and  Catherine 
(  DePuy)  Hoornbeek,  was  born  at  Napanoch, 
New  York.  March  3,  1834,  died  at  Wawarsing, 
November  5,  1910.  LTntil  the  age  of  thirteen 
years  lie  was  a  pupil  in  the  district  schools  ofj 
Wawarsing,  and  after  spending  two  years  at! 
school  in  Napanoch,  he  completed  his  educa- 
tion at  Kingston  Academy.  While  he  was  still 
a  student  he  decided  to  establish  himself  in) 
business  and  accordingly  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Port  Hixon,  conducting  this  for  a 
period  of  six  years.  He  then  became  asso- 
ciated  with  William  H.  De  Garmo,  and  was 
engaged  in  the  tanning  and  mercantile  busi- 
ness at  Wawarsing,  New  York.  This  associa- 
tion was  in  force  until  1876,  at  which  time  Mr.- 
Hoornbeek  purchased  the  interest  of  his  part- 
ner and  continued  this  business  alone.  In 
1X71;  he  commenced  the  manufacture  of  excel- 
sior, and  the  following  year  erected  another 
factory  at  Boiceville.  In  1900  he  built  a  mill 
at  Napanoch  for  the  manufacture  of  dry  wood 
pulp,  and  he  was  also  extensively  engaged  in 
the  bending  works  for  auto-wagons,  etc.,  at 
Boiceville.  Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Hoornbeek 
these  extensive  interests  have  been  continued 
and  are  conducted  by  his  sons.  Mr.  Hoorn- 
beek was  the  largest  landowner  in  Ulster 
county.  He  was  a  self-made  man  in  the  high- 
est and  best  sense  of  the  expression,  and  one< 
who  had  won  the  esteem  and  respect  of  all 
with  whom  he  had  dealings,  whether  in  pri- 
vate or  business  life.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  had  been  president  of  the  Ellenville  Sav- 
ings Bank,  but  was  obliged  to  resign  this  post 
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ther  interests.  He  served  a  number  of  times 
s  delegate  to  state  and  county  conventions, 
nd  in  1896  was  honored  by  being  chosen 
democratic  presidential  elector.  His  fraternal 
ffiliation  was  with  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No. 
82,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Ellenville, 
n"ew  York,  of  which  he  was  a  charter  member. 
Mr.  Hoornbeek  married,  in  January,  1859, 
Amelia,  born  May  11,  1834,  died  January  25, 
911,  daughter  of  John  B.  Van  Leuven,  of 
Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York.  Chil- 
Iren :  Louis  A.,  see  forward  ;  Elias  D. ;  Ar- 
hur  V.,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Louis  A.,  son  of  John  C.  and  Amelia 

Van    Leuven)    Hoornbeek,  was  born   in  the 

own    of    Wawarsing,    Ulster    county.    New 

fork,  October  31,  1864,  on  the  old  Hoornbeek 

lomestead.     He  attended  the  district  schools 

»f  his  native  town,  and  Rhinebeck  Academy, 

^.hinebeck,  New  York,  under  the  tutorship  of 

ames  De  Garmo.    Then  he  became  associated 

irith  his  father  until  1885,  when  he  moved  to 

^apanoch,  and  settled  on  the  farms  formerly 

>wned    by   Jacob    Joy    and    Andrew    Schoon- 

naker,   both    consisting  of   two  hundred   and 

fty  acres.     Here  he   followed   farming,  and 

ought  the  Jacob  Hoornbeek  grist  mill,  which 

le  later  sold  to  his  father,  who  turned  it  into 

1  pulp  mill,  which  is  still  being  conducted  by 

ohn     C.     Hoornbeek's     sons.       During     his 

ather's  life  he  was  associated  with  him  in  his 

/arious   enterprises,    and   on   his   death,    with 

lis  brother,  succeeded  to  his  interests,  which 

hey  still  conduct.    He  is  a  member  of  Wawar- 

ing  Lodge,  No.  582,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 

ons ;  and  Wawarsing  Chapter ;  Junior  Order 

)f     American     Mechanics,     Napanoch,     New 

¥ork.     He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  in 

religion  an  attendant  of  the  Methodist  church. 

Te  married,  October  7.  1885,  Frances  Estelle 

rundage.     Children:     Ethel  B.,  Clarence  A., 

John  C. 

(VI)  Arthur  V.,  son  of  John  C.  and  Ame- 
lia (Van  Leuven)  Hoornbeek,  was  born  in 
Wawarsing,  New  York,  September  15,  1873. 
The  district  schools  of  his  native  town  fur- 
nished his  early  education,  and  going  from 
there  he  went  to  Ellenville  Academy,  and  fin- 
ally to  Eastman's  Business  College  in  Pough- 
keepsie,  New  York.  Early  in  life  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  various  busi- 
ness enterprises  of  the  latter,  thus  obtaining  a 
thorough  and  practical  knowledge  of  every  de- 


tail. Since  the  death  of  his  father,  in  associa- 
tion with  his  brothers,  he  has  carried  on  all 
the  various  lines  under  the  firm  name  of  John 
C.  Hoornbeek's  Sons,  manufacturers  of  dry 
wood  pulp  and  excelsior.  The  products  of 
the  firm  are  known  and  valued  throughout  the 
country.  Mr.  Hoornbeek  married,  June  29, 
1905,  Josephine,  daughter  of  William  Decker, 
of  Kerhonkson,  Ulster  county.  New  York. 
Mr.  Hoornbeek  has  apparently  inherited  in 
large  measure  the  business  and  executive  abil- 
ity so  generously  displayed  by  his  father,  and 
is  a  man  of  most  progressive  ideas. 


The  name  Clark  or  Clarke  is  de- 
CLARK     rived     from    the    term    clericus, 

meaning  "a  priest,"  or  "one  con- 
nected with  the  service  of  the  church."  At 
first  the  term  was  used  only  to  designate  those 
in  clerical  orders,  but  as  in  early  times  the 
church  was  the  only  source  and  protector  of 
learning,  any  person  who  had  been  educated 
by  the  clergy  eventually  came  to  be  called  "a 
clerk."  The  designation  was  finally  given  to 
all  who  were  able  to  read  and  write.  So  dis- 
tinguished a  name  was  eagerly  coveted.  Hence 
its  frequency,  many  people  adding  "le  clerk" 
to  their  names.  This  was  finally  dropped  and 
only  Clerk  left,  or  as  it  was  pronounced  Clark. 
The  final  "e"  is  an  addition  of  later  times,  given 
for  the  most  part  at  mere  caprice.  Compounds 
of  the  name  are  Beauclark,  the  good  clerk ; 
and  Pityclerk,  the  little  clerk ;  Kenclerk,  the 
knowing  clerk ;  and  Mauclerk,  the  bad  clerk. 
The  name  Milo  le  Clerk  is  found  in  the  "One 
Hundred  Rolls,"  compiled  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward I.,  which  contains  records  of  the  persons 
who  owned  lands  in  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  for  which  they  paid  rent  in  money, 
sheep,  or  hens,  or  gave  their  service  as  sol- 
diers. Several  Domesday  tenants  are  desig- 
nated "Clericus."  An  interesting  tradition  has 
been  handed  down  by  one  family  bearing  the 
name  of  Clark  or  Clarke,  with  regard  to  a 
marriage  with  one  of  the  descendants  of  Jo- 
seph of  Arimathea.  After  the  Crucifixion. 
Joseph  was  banished  from  Judea.  In  company 
with  Philip  the  Apostle,  Mary,  Martha,  Laza- 
rus, and  a  servant  Marcilla,  he  was  put  into 
a  vessel  without  sails  or  oars,  and  set  adrift  to 
perish  in  the  sea.  The  ship  was  thrown  upon 
the  French  coast.  Joseph  finally  found  his 
way  to  Britain,  where  he   founded  a  church 


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at  Glastonbury,  to  which  place  thousands  of 
the  devout  in  the  Middle  Ages  journeyed  ev- 
ery year  to  see  the  blossoming  of  the  sacred 
thorn  on  Christmas  Day.  Upon  what  author- 
ity the  connection  of  the  family  of  Clark  with 
Joseph  rests,  history  maintains  a  discreet  si- 
lence. It  gives  the  tradition  and  leaves  the  rest 
to  the  imagination.  There  are  many  families 
of  the  name  of  Clark  having  the  right  to  bear 
arms,  both  in  England,  Scotland  and  Ireland. 
In  the  latter  two  countries  the  name  Clark  is 
usually  a  translation  from  the  older  Gaelic 
name,  <  I'Cleirigh  or  MacCleirigh,  which  in  its 
turn  is  derived  from  the  name  of  the  main 
ancestor,  Cleirach  (Gaelic,  "a  clerk"),  who  on 
official  Irish  pedigrees,  is  given  as  No.  101  on 
the  I  I'Shaughnessy  pedigree,  the  one  family 
being  a  branch  of  the  other  and  both  belong- 
ing to  the  Heremonian  stem,  ["he  arms  of 
one  (.'lark  family  arc  thus  heraldically  describ- 
ed :  Ardent,  on  a  bend  gules,  between  three 
roundels  sable,  as  many  swans  of  the  field. 
("rest  :  i  hit  of  a  tau  cross  or  three  roses  gules, 
leaves  vert,  between  a  pair  of  wings  azure. 
Motto:  Secretum  mei  gondii  in  cruce — The 
secret  of  in)   joy  is  in  the  cross. 

(  I  )  Henry  Clark  was  the  son  of  Nathaniel 
Clark,  and  was  born  December  4.  17*14.  in 
Orange  county,  New  York,  lived  in  the  town 
of  Blooming  Grove,  and  died  at  Salisbury 
Mills,  (  (range  county.  New  York.  The  Clark 
name  is  so  numerous  that  it  is  difficult  for  the 
genealogist  to  connect  one  branch  with  an- 
other among  the  English,  Irish,  Dutch,  Scotch, 
Welsh  and  other  families  bearing  the  name. 
This  family  is  of  Welsh  descent.  If  Henry 
Clark  was  not  the  son  of  the  immigrant  an- 
cestor who  came  to  America  a  little  before  the 
revolution,  it  seems  probable  that  he  was  de- 
scended from  John  Clark,  son  of  William 
Clark,  who  settled  in  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, between  11 175  and  1680,  whose  descend- 
ants are  now  numerous  in  New  York.  The 
father,  William  Clark,  was  one  of  the  original 
settlers  of  Haddam,  Connecticut.  In  Field's 
"Statistical  Account  of  the  County  of  Middle- 
sex in  Connecticut,"  it  is  stated  that  the  first 
settlement  there  was  made  by  twenty-eight 
young  men  who  bought  their  land  from  Mat- 
thew Allyn  and  Samuel  Willys,  who  purchased 
it  from  the  Indians  for  thirty  coats,  a  tract 
extending  six  miles  east  and  westerly  from 
the  Connecticut  river.  At  the  beginning;  of 
the    first    book    of    Haddam    records    William 


Clark's  name  is  third  on  the  list  of  those  to 
whom  land  is  distributed.  He  died  at  Had- 
dam, July  2 j,  1681,  and  his  will,  together  with 
the  inventory  of  his  estate,  is  among  the  pro- 
bate records  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  His 
estate  was  appraised  at  four  hundred  and 
twelve  pounds,  eighteen  shillings,  quite  a  re- 
spectable fortune  in  those  days.  The  children 
who  survived  him  were :  Thomas,  William, 
John,  Joseph,  Hannah,  and  other  daughters 
mentioned  only  in  their  family  names :  Mrs. 
Wells,  Mrs.  Fennoe  and  Airs.  Spencer.  His 
son  John  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Nathaniel  White,  and  appears  to  have 
been  a  man  of  standing  and  property.  John, 
the  son  of  John,  and  grandson  of  William, 
had  a  homestead  of  thirteen  acres  given  to 
him  in  1720  by  his  father,  who  in  1730  also 
deeded  him  one  hundred  and  sixty-one  acres 
of  land  at  Haddam.  He  married  Sarah  Good- 
win, of  Hartford,  and  his  grandsons,  through 
his  son  William,  are  the  first  of  the  family  to 
appear  settled  in  New  York. 

The  exact  relationship  of  Henry  Clark  to- 
wards this  family,  assuming  such  a  relation- 
ship to  exist,  does  not  seem  clear.  He  spent 
his  early  days  in  Orange  county,  where  he  was 
a  farmer.  He  also  lived  in  Middletown  and 
other  places  in  the  vicinity,  where  he  was  a 
farmer  and  mason.  Later  in  life  he  settled 
in  the  town  of  Neversink,  Sullivan  county. 
Here  he  was  a  prominent  man,  and  a  Chris- 
tian of  devout  character,  who  was  greatly  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  Henry  Clark 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  church  of  Grahamville.  He  married 
Susan  G.  Horton,  born  October  20,  1792,  died 
January  7.  1844.  Children:  Mary  H.,  mar- 
ried J.  Denniston ;  Walter:  Nathan  Corwin, 
mentioned  below ;  Eunice,  married  Henry 
White;  Sarah  T..  married  William  T.  Stead. 

(  II  )  Nathan  Corwin,  son  of  Henry  and 
Susan  G.  (  Horton )  Clark,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 21,  1818,  in  the  town  of  Blooming  Grove, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 25,  1906,  at  his  residence  in  Ellenville, 
New  York.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county, 
and  early  in  life  went  west  and  found  em- 
ployment in  a  general  store  at  Ravenna.  Ohio. 
Here  he  remained  a  year,  and  at  the  end  of 
that  period  returned  to  his  native  town  and 
took  uii  school  teaching.  He  was  a  teacher 
from  that  time  in  various  schools  of  Orange 


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id  Sullivan  counties.  This  continued  for 
jht  or  nine  years,  and  at  the  end  of  that 
me  he  forsook  the  teaching  profession  and  in 
Dtnpany  with  his  father-in-law  opened  a 
eneral  store  in  Grahamsville.  The  partner- 
lip  between  him  and  his  father-in-law,  R.  D. 
'hilds,  continued  for  a  number  of  years,  when 
I  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Clark  formed  another 
artnership  with  George  B.  Childs.  The  part- 
ership  formed  with  George  B.  Childs,  under 
le  firm  name  of  N.  C.  Clark  &  Company,  did 
n  extensive  and  lucrative  business  in  lumber 
nd  turn  stuff  in  connection  with  their  general 
:ore.  This  partnership  continued  until  1876, 
•hen,  with  his  son,  R.  D.  Clark,  he  formed  a 
artnership  which  continued  until  1878.  In 
880  Mr.  Clark  and  his  son  again  engaged  in 
usiness  in  Fallsburg,  New  York.  He  re- 
lained  in  business  in  that  town  until  the  year 
890,  when  he  retired  from  active  business, 
n  the  year  1905  he  moved  from  Grahamsville 
3  Ellenville,  in  company  with  his  daughter, 
nth  whom  he  resided  until  he  passed  away 
l  1906.  Mr.  Clark  was  a  member  of  the 
ioard  of  Supervisors  on  the  Democratic 
icket  from  the  town  of  Neversink,  Sullivan 
ounty,  for  two  terms,  and  chairman  of  the 
oard  one  year.  He  was  a  member  and  offi- 
er  of  the  Reformed  church  for  forty-six 
ears,  and  was  also  justice  of  the  peace  for  a 
umber  of  years.  He  was  a  stockholder  in 
he  Bank  of  Monticello,  New  York,  and  was 
ne  of  the  founders  and  original  directors  of 
he  First  National  Bank  of  Ellenville,  New 
:rork,  and  subsequently  became  its  vice-presi- 
ent.  holding  both  positions  continually,  until 
lis  death  and  outliving  all  the  rest  of  the 
•riginal  board  by  nearly  two  decades.  He 
ras  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the 
iirrounding  country,  comprising  parts  of  Sul- 
ivan  and  Ulster  counties.  Though  largely 
elf-educated,  during  the  time  he  worked  as 
teacher  in  the  schools,  he  was  a  man  of  ac- 
omplishments  and  large  reading.  He  took 
he  keenest  interests  in  the  public  questions 
if  the  day.  whether  they  related  to  national, 
tate  or  civic  affairs,  though  his  time  was 
greatly  absorbed  by  the  demands  of  business. 
iy  all  who  knew  him  he  was  looked  upon  as 
1  man  of  high  character,  an  extremely  capable 
msiness  man,  and  an  excellent  citizen.  He 
narried,  July  29,  1848.  Clarissa  A.  Childs. 
iorn  November  14.  1821,  died  September  30. 


1898,  at  Grahamsville.  Children:  Mary  H. ; 
R.  Dvvight,  of  whom  further;  M.  Eugene,  of 
whom  further.  All  are  residents  of  Ellen- 
ville, New  York. 

(Ill)  R.  Dwight,  son  of  Nathan  Corwin 
and  Clarissa  A.  (Childs)  Clark,  was  born  at 
Grahamsville,  Sullivan  county,  New  York, 
July  11,  1857.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
■-chiii  ils  and  at  Eastman's  Business  College, 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  afterwards  going 
to  Monticello,  Sullivan  county,  New  York. 
In  1876  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  X.  C.  Clark  &:  Son.  of  Gra- 
hamsville. This  continued  until  1880, 
when  they  built  a  store  for  general  mer- 
chandising at  Fallsburg  Station.  Mr.  Nathan 
Corwin  Clark  was  then  at  the  head  of  a  large 
business.  When  he  retired  in  1890  his  son,  R. 
Dwight  Clark,  succeeded  him.  Two  years 
afterwards,  in  connection  with  his  general 
business  he  established  the  R.  D.  Clark  Feed, 
Coal  and  Lumber  Company,  which  proved 
successful  from  the  start.  In  1904,  after  a 
quarter  of  a  century  of  successful  and  ener- 
getic business  life,  Mr.  Clark  purchased  a  resi- 
dence in  Ellenville  and  settled  there  in  October 
of  that  year.  In  1905  he  bought  the  coal  and 
oil  business  of  O.  H.  Harting,  which  business 
Mr.  Clark  still  maintains,  having  disposed  of 
his  entire  business  interests  at  Fallsburg  in 
1905.  He  has  been  for  many  years  a  director 
of  the  National  Union  Bank  of  Monticello, 
New  York,  and  trustee  of  the  Ellenville  Sav- 
ings Bank,  also  a  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Ellenville.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Reformed  church,  and  for  many  years 
an  elder.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
has  always  taken  great  interest  in  public  af- 
fairs, was  postmaster  at  South  Fallsburg,  New 
York,  under  Cleveland's  first  administration, 
but  has  never  sought  or  held  any  other  public 
office. 

On  September  15,  1881,  he  married  Harriet 
L.  Grant,  born  February  4,  i860,  youngest 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Leroy  Grant, 
of  the  town  of  Neversink,  Sullivan  county, 
New  York.  Mr.  Grant  represented  his  town 
on  the  board  of  supervisors  and  was  one  of 
Sullivan  county's  merchants  of  prominence. 
Children:  1.  Augusta  C.  born  July  9,  1882: 
married  Raymond  G.  Cox,  attorney  of  Ellen- 
ville. April  20,  1907.  and  has  one  daughter. 
Harriet  G.  Cox.     2.  Harry  N..  born   June  0. 


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1885;  a  graduate  of  Princeton,  class  of  1907; 
a  civil  engineer,  now  in  llayti;  married,  Oc- 
tober 19,  1911,  Emma  Askew,  of  Atlanta. 
Georgia.  3.  R.  Eugene,  born  August  14,  1887; 
a  graduate  of  Cornell,  class  of   1911. 

(Ill)  M.  Eugene,  son  of  Nathan  Corwin 
and  Clarissa  A.  (Childs)  Clark,  was  born  at 
Grahamsville,  Sullivan  county.  New  York,  Au- 
gust 12,  [863.  lie  \\a~-  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  his  native  town,  Chappaqua 
Mountain  Institute,  Westchester  county,  Xew 
York,  and  Eort  Edward  Institute,  Fort  Ed- 
ward, New  York.  I  lis  first  start  in  life  was 
in  the  mercantile  business  with  his  brother  at 
South  Fallsburg,  .Yew  York,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued for  five  years,  and  in  [887  he  came  to 
Ellenville  and  became  a  bookkeeper  in  the 
First  National  Bank,  in  1890,  being  made 
cashier,  and  in  1S07,  on  the  death  of  its  presi- 
dent, Charles  Vernooy,  he  was  elected  to  suc- 
ceed him  as  president,  which  position  he  has 
acceptably  filled  to  the  present  time  (1913). 
lie  is  and  has  been  elder  for  the  past  fifteen 
years  in  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  of  Ellen- 
ville; a  member  of  the  Ellenville  board  of 
education  for  ten  years,  at  the  present  time 
serving  as  president  ;  was  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  county  committee ;  and  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Democratic  National  Conven- 
tion at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  that  nomin- 
ated President  Wilson.  Although  it  has  been 
suggested  that  he  accept  public  office  by  the 
leaders  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  has  never 
done  so,  preferring  to  devote  his  entire  time 
and  attention  to  his  business  pursuits.  He  is 
public-spirited  and  progressive,  active  in  the 
affairs  of  the  community  in  which  he  resides, 
and  is  one  of  the  influential  and  substantial 
citizens  of  Ellenville.  He  married  (first)  in 
i8yo,  Mary  Ella  Weeks,  born  in  July,  1862, 
died  in  1902.  lie  married  (second)  October 
28,   1903,  l.enora  Terwilliger. 


The  family  hereditary 
TERWILLIGER  name  of  Terwilliger  is 
Holland  Dutch  in  origin, 
and  resolved  into  its  original  elements  be- 
comes Van  Der  W'illigen  or  Van  Derwilligen. 
It  is  evident  from  the  records  that  all  the 
children  of  Jan  Evertsz  and  Sytje  VanEtten 
took  the  name  of  Van  der  W'illigen  or  Ter- 
willigen  (er),  which  was  modified  later  and 
more  generally  to  Terwilliger.  From  the  una- 
nimity with  which  all  of  them  did  so  it  is  plain 


that  the  family  name  in  the  Netherlands  was 
either  Van  Der  W'illigen  or  Terwilligen.  Vanr 
or  W'illigen  means  "From  the  Willows,"  Ter 
Vvilligen  means  "Near  the  Willows."  It  is 
thus  plain  that  the  family  name  was  origin- 
ally derived  from  some  place  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  woods  of  willow  trees.  Yianen,  from 
which  the  original  American  emigrants  of  the 
name  hailed  directly  on  coming  to  this  country, 
is  in  the  province  of  South  Holland,  seven 
miles  southeast  of  Utrecht  and  thirteen  miles 
northeast  of  Gorcum.  In  1870  it  had  a  popu- 
lation  of  three  thousand  two  hundred.  Fami- 
lies of  the  name  of  Terwilliger  were  prominent 
at  an  early  date  in  Ulster  county  and  the  ad- 
joining counties.  It  has  been  borne  through 
succeeding  generations  by  sturdy  and  worthy 
yeomen,  as  well  as  by  men  of  prominence  in 
business  and  public  affairs.  Among  the  ar- 
rivals from  the  Netherlands,  March  15,  1663,. 
in  the  "Arend"  (  Eagle)  Captain  Pieter  Corne- 
lisz  Bes,  from  Amsterdam  for  Manhattan, 
were  Evert  Dircksen  (Terwilliger)  from 
Yianen,  and  two  children,  thirteen  and  six 
years  old.  Also  Annetje  Dirck  (  probably . 
Evert's  sister)  widow,  from  Yianen,  and 
child,  four  years  old. 

(  I  )  Dirck  Terwilliger  or  Van  Der  W'illigen, 
ancestor  of  the  family  bearing  the  name  of 
Terwilliger  in  America,  was  born  probably 
about  1610  in  Holland,  where  be  lived  and 
died.  He  resided  at  Yianen  and  probably  died 
there.  He  belonged,  accrding  to  tradition, 
to  the  farming  class. 

(  II  )  Evert  or  Dirck.  son  of  Dirck  Terwilli- 
ger or  Van  Der  W'illigen,  and  immigrant  an- 
cestor of  the  Terwilliger  family,  was  born  at 
Vianen  in  Holland,  and  came  to  this  country 
in  [663,  with  his  sister,  Annetje  Dirck,  a  wi- 
dow, with  a  child  four  years  old.  Among  the 
arrivals  from  the  Netherlands.  March  15. 
[663,  was  Evert  Dircksen  Terwilliger,  accord- 
ing to  the  records.  There  is  no  record  of  the 
name  of  Evert's  wife,  who  had  probably  died 
in  Holland  before  he  crossed  the  sea,  and  it 
seems  that  Evert  did  not  marry  again.  His 
children  were   [an  and  a  daughter. 

(Ill)  Jan.  son  of  Evert  Terwilliger.  was 
born  at  Vianen,  in  Holland,  in  1657,  and  died 
at  Kingston,  New  York.  In  the  marriage 
records  of  Kingston,  under  date  of  April  2^, 
1685,  is  the  record  of  the  marriage  of  "Jan 
Evertsz.  young  man  of  Vianen,  under  the  jur- 
isdiction of  the  Diocese  of  Utrecht,  and  Svtie 


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acobz  van  Etten,  young  woman  of  Kings- 
ouwne,  both  residing  in  Marmur  ( Marble- 
own)."  Both  Evert  Dirckson,  the  father,  and 
an  Evertsz,  the  son,  appeared  at  first  only 
nder  their  patronymic,  as  was  customary  with 
11  the  Dutch  families  of  the  period.  Evert 
)ircksen  means  Evert,  the  son  of  Dirck.  His 
on  was  known  as  Jan  Evertsz  or  Evertsen. 
he  children  of  Jan  Everts  and  Sytie  Jacobsz 
fan  Etten  resumed  the  family  name  of  Ter- 
illiger  (Van  Der  Williger,  Derwilligen). 
ithout  doubt  Jan  was  the  six  year  old  son 
f  Evert  Dircksen  of  1663  in  the  "Eagle." 
Children  :  Evert,  mentioned  below  ;  Jacobus, 
aptized  November  25,  1688;  Johannes,  No- 
ember  6,  1692;  Jannetje,  June  9,  1695; 
latheus,  April  18,  1697;  Matheus,  October 
o,  1698;  Salomon,  September  1,  1700:  Man- 
el,  May  31,  1702;  Pieter  or  Petrus,  Septem- 
3,  1704;  Ary  or  Adrian,  September  22, 
706;  Abraham,  September  18,  1707;  Ysaak, 
une  10,  1716. 

(IV)  Evert,  eldest  son  of  Jan  Evertsz  and 
ytie  Jacobsz  (Van  Etten)  Terwilliger,  was 
aptized  at  Kingston,  New  York,  May  23, 
686.  He  married,  August  18,  1717,  Zara 
reer,  "a  young  woman  born  in  New  Paltz." 

^mong    his    children    was    Hugo,    mentioned 
elow. 

(V)  Hugo,  son  of  Evert  and  Zara  (Freer) 
"erwillieer,  was  born  near  Kingston,  about 
720.  He  married  Jannetje  Frere.  Among 
is  children  was  Benjamin,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Hugo  and  Tannetie 
Frere)  Terwilliger,  was  born  near  Kingston, 
lister  county,  New  York,  September  23,  1753. 
le  married  Eva  Hasbrook.  Among  his  chil- 
ren  was  Cornelis  or  Cornelius,  mentioned 
elow. 

(VII)  Cornelis  (or  Cornelius),  son  of  Ben- 
amin  and  Eva  (Hasbrook)  Terwil'isrer,  was 
orn  near  Kingston,  and  baptized  December 
6,  1785.  Amon?  his  children  was  Jonathan 
*.,  mentioned  be'ow 

(VIII)  Jonathan  C,  son  of  Cornelis  (or 
'ornelius)  Terwilliger,  was  born  in  the  town 
Vawarsing,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  Tunf 
2,  1819,  and  died  June  13,  1885.  His  educa- 
on  was  such  as  the  country  school  afforded 
1  those  days.  In  early  life  he  learned  the 
arpenter's  trade,  became  a  successful  contrac- 
ir  and  builder  and  was  so  engaged  for  thirtv- 
ve  years  in  Ellenville  and  its  vicinity.  He 
•as  president  of  the  village  for  one  term  and 


was  chief  of  the  first  fire  department  of  Ellen- 
\  i lie.  He  was  a  strong  temperance  advocate, 
and  a  man  of  sterling  qualities,  greatly  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  He  married 
Elizabeth  R.  Wilber. 

(IX)  Uriah  E.,  son  of  Jonathan  C.  and 
Elizabeth  R.  (Wilber)  Terwilliger,  was  born 
in  the  village  of  Ellenville,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  December  10,  1849.  His  educa- 
tion was  begun  in  the  public  schools  of  his  na- 
tive town  and  continued  at  the  Ellenville  High 
School,  conducted  for  long  years  by  Professor 
S.  A.  Law  Post,  which  was  then  an  institution 
of  considerable  prominence.  Later  Mr.  Ter- 
williger attended  Waring's  Military  Institute, 
at  Poughkeepsie,  and  the  Hudson  River  Insti- 
tute, at  Claverack,  New  York.  At  an  early  age 
comparatively  he  was  compelled,  because  of 
impaired  health,  to  abandon  plans  for  extended 
study,  and  for  three  years  engaged  with  his 
father,  thus  acquiring  a  practical  knowledge  of 
carpentry.  A  little  later  on,  at  nineteen  years 
of  age,  he  established  a  real  estate  and  in- 
surance agency.  With  characteristic  enthusi- 
asm Mr.  Terwilliger  quickly  developed  the 
business,  and  eventually,  with  partners,  built 
up  one  of  the  largest  general  insurance  agen- 
cies in  the  state.  The  firm's  style  for  a  number 
of  years  was  Neafie  &  Terwilliger,  then  Neafie, 
Terwilliger  &  Post.  For  many  years  after 
Mr.  Terwilliger's  brother,  Edward  N.,  was  his 
only  associate  in  the  firm  which  was  familiarly 
known  as  U.  E.  and  E.  N.  Terwilliger,  and 
three  years  since,  upon  the  admission  of  Bert 
H  ,  only  son  of  Mr.  Terwilliger,  the  business 
became  known  and  is  now  conducted  as  The 
Terwilliger  Agency.  In  connection  with  this 
particular  business  Mr.  Terwilliger  was  con- 
spicuously entrusted  with  many  fiduciary  in- 
terests as  the  executor  and  administrator  of 
estates,  and  as  the  representative  of  various 
financial  institutions  throughout  the  county 
and  elsewhere,  until  he  became  widely  known 
for  his  business  sagacity  and  unswerving  hon- 
esty. Always  deeply  interested  in  local  affairs, 
Mr.  Terwilliger  has  given  generously  of  time 
and  money  to  matters  of  local  weal.  It  was 
during  his  presidency  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion that  the  school  system  was  advanced,  a 
superintendent  first  employed,  and  the  old  high 
school  property  acquired  for  the  use  of  the 
biejier  departments.  A  local  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  and  Board  of  Trade, 
both  in  active  useful  existence  for  many  years, 


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owed  their  beginning  to  his  euthusiasm.  From 
early  manhood  he  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Reformed  church,  with  which  lie  has 
long  been  officially  connected,  and  for  twelve 
years  superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school.  In 
politics  Mr.  Terwilliger  has  always  been  a  Re- 
publican, until  the  advent  of  the  Progressive 
party,  with  which  he  is  now  affiliated,  lie 
has  invariably  declined  political  honors,  though 
frequently  urged  to  accept  nominations,  from 
supervisor  of  the  town  to  slate  senator. 

But  it  is  perhaps  in  the  development  of  his 
estate  at  Mount  Meenahga,  now  famous  as  a 
summer  resort,  that  Mr.  Terwilliger  has  be- 
come must  widely  known.  After  Mime  years 
of  close  application  to  business,  necessity  for 
rest  manifested  itself,  and  in  1877  Mr,  Terwil- 
liger and  a  party  of  friends  formed  a  camp  on 
the  wc-terlv  side  of  the  Shawangunks,  two 
miles  from  Ellenville.  Impressed  with  the 
natural  advantages  and  beauty  of  the  location 
he  made  a  lease  of  the  property  the  following 
year,  and  three  years  later  bought  a  tract  of 
one  hundred  acres.  With  a  view  to  making  a 
permanent  summer  home,  a  comfortable  cot- 
tage and  barns  were  erected,  and  from  time  to 
time  other  cottages  were  built  for  the  accom- 
modation of  friends  who  sought  more  comfort- 
able quarters  than  a  simple  camp  life  afforded. 
Additional  acres  were  bought  from  year  to 
year,  until  finally  the  erection  of  a  small  board- 
ing house,  in  1XX1,  marked  the  beginning  of  the 
present  Mount  Mcenahga  as  a  resort,  now  sec- 
ond in  importance  only  to  one  other  in  the 
county,  Lake  Mohonk.  The  property  now 
comprises  upwards  of  six  hundred  acres,  con- 
trolling the  bold  face  of  the  mountain  for 
nearly  two  miles  On  the  north  and  south  are 
tracts  owned  by  the  village  of  Ellenville,  as 
a  water  preserve,  numbering  some  five  thou- 
sand acres,  and  assuring  to  Mount  Mcenahga 
for  all  time  the  advantages  of  a  large  forest 
domain.  The  work  of  development  at  Mount 
Meenahga  has  been  along  the  lines  of  nature's 
plan,  and  rare  genius  has  been  displayed  in 
the  building  of  many  miles  of  paths  and  roads 
that  lead  over  the  beautiful  hilltops  or  through 
deep  gorges,  disclosing  a  wealth  of  beauty  and 
grandeur  at  every  turn.  The  hotel  property 
is  thoroughly  modern  in  its  equipment,  and 
means  for  healthful  recreation  have  been  gen- 
erously provided.  Mr.  Terwilliger  is  one  of 
the  trustees  of  the  Ellenville  Savines  Bank  and 
has  been  such  for  twenty-seven  years    a  wit- 


ness and  abettor  of  its  growth  from  $481,000 
to  over  $2,003,000  ill  deposits. 

Mr.  Terwilliger  married  Alice  A.  Hoar, 
daughter  of  George  Hoar,  prominent  as  a  boat 
builder  of  Ellenville,  New  York.  They  have 
two  children:  t.  Bert  H.,  wdio  married  Flor- 
ence Tone,  of  Bergen,  New  York;  children: 
Robert  S.  and  Katharine  T.  2.  Alice  Louise, 
married  Harold  B.  Raymond,  son  of  President 
P.  B.  Raymond,  of  the  Wesleyan  University, 
of  Middletown,  Connecticut. 


Reuben  Bernard,  the  earliest 
BERNARD  ancestor  recorded  in  the  fam- 
ily Bible,  was  of  English  de- 
scent and  was  a  Quaker.  He  was  born  on 
Long  Island,  October  1,  1764,  and  died  at 
Plattekill,  LHster  county.  New  York,  June  12, 
1840.  At  the  time  of  the  revolutionary  war, 
his  father's  family  being  Loyalists,  removed  to 
Canada,  he  alone  remaining  in  the  state.  In 
early  manhood  he  came  to  Ulster  county, 
where,  about  1795,  he  married  Mary  Lawrence, 
and  settled  upon  a  farm  at  Plattekill.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Phoebe  (  Sim- 
mons) Lawrence,  was  born  October  31,  1774, 
and  died  at  Plattekill,  November  30,  1851. 
The  children  of  Reuben  and  Mary  (  Lawrence) 
Bernard  were:  Rachel,  married  John  Church; 
David  Lawrence,  see  forward  ;  Daniel ;  Wil- 
liam ;   Mary,  married  Charles   Palmer;  Annie, 

married    -     Penny:    James.     Daniel    and 

James   were   also   married. 

(Ill  David  Lawrence,  son  of  Reuben  and 
Mary  (Lawrence)  Bernard,  was  born  March 
11,  1803,  and  died  at  Highland.  New  York, 
July  4,  1879.  He  received  such  education  as 
the  public  schools  of  the  day  afforded,  but  be- 
ing of  a  literary  turn  of  mind,  through  reading 
and  study  became  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
culture.  Early  in  life  he  engaged  in  teaching. 
Later,  during  the  height  of  the  Masonic  excite- 
ment, be  edited  the  Ulster  Palladium,  an  anti- 
Masonic  publication.  A  file  of  these  papers 
has  been  preserved  in  the  Kingston  Public 
Library.  After  leaving  Kingston,  he  bought 
the  farm  near  Clintondale,  where  be  lived  for 
many  years.  In  1872  he  removed  to  Highland, 
New  York,  where  his  death  occurred.  Polit- 
ically he  was  a  member  of  the  old  Whie  party 
and  was  frequently  a  delegate  to  state  and 
county  conventions.  In  1840  Mr.  Bernard  re- 
presented bis  district  in  the  state  legislature. 
He  helped  to  organize   the   Republican  party 


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nd  was  faithful  to  it  until  his  death.  For 
everal  years  he  was  president  of  the  Ulster 
'ounty  Agricultural  Society,  and  was  a  charter 
lember  of  the  Ulster  County  Historical  So- 
iety.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
'riends  by  right  of  birth. 

Mr.  Bernard  married,  October  21,  1826,  Abi- 
ail,  born  January  8,  1809,  died  September  7, 
874,  a  daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Ketch- 
m)  Demerest.  Children  :  William  ;  Reuben, 
ee  forward ;  Mary. 

(Ill)  Reuben,  second  son  of  David  Lawr- 
ence and  Abigail  (  Demerest )  Bernard,  was 
orn  in  Plattekill,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
'ebruary  24,  1830.  He  was  educated  in  the 
L'hools  of  his  neighborhood,  and  later  at  the 
sew  Paltz  Academy  and  Amenia  Seminary. 
n  1849  ne  commenced  reading  law  in  the  offi- 
es  of  Forsyth  &  Hasbrouck,  at  Kingston.  He 
/as  graduated  from  the  New  York  State  and 
National  Law  School,  at  Ballston  Spa,  in  1851, 
/as  awarded  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws, 
nd  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  the  same  year, 
.ater  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts 
f  the  United  States.  He  commenced  his  pro- 
cssional  work  in  the  offices  of  his  former  pre- 
eptors,  and  continued  in  the  practice  of  his 
rofession  until  his  retirement  in  January, 
909,  in  same  location.  In  1852  he  was  ap- 
ointed  attorney  for  the  Huguenot  Bank,  this 
aving  been  organized  at  New  Paltz,  and  from 
855  until  1870  was  attorney  for  the  Ulster 
ounty  Savings  Institution,  and  from  1877  to 
909,  attorney  for  the  New  Paltz  &  Savings 
tank.  In  1858  he  assumed  official  connection 
Itith  the  Kingston  National  Bank  as  its  attor- 
ey;  was  made  a  director  in  1868;  became  its 
resident  in  1877,  and  now  (1913)  has  entered 
pon  his  thirty-seventh  year  in  that  office, 
'our  years  were  spent  in  office  as  the  president 
f  the  Kingston  &  Rondout  railroad,  and  he 
vas  for  a  number  of  years  director  of  the 
Vallkill  Valley  railroad  ;  he  was  attorney  for 
oth  nf  these  corporations.  Another  honor 
hat  came  to  him  was  that  of  the  presidency 
f  the  Kingston  Board  of  Trade,  an  office  he 
ield  for  many  years.  Mr.  Bernard  is  a  mem- 
■er  of  the  Fair  Street  Reformed  Church,  has 
:e1d  various  offices  in  the  church  and  Sunday 
chool,  and  has  served  as  president  of  the  Ul- 
ter  County  Sunday  School  Association. 

Mr.  Bernard  married,  June  3,  1856,  Jane 
"atherine,  born  August  8.  1833,  died  December 
8,  1903,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Garrett  Du  Bois 


and  Sarah  (Post)  Crispell.  Dr.  Crispell  was 
a  practicing  physician  in  Kingston  for  more 
than  half  a  century.  Children  of  Reuben 
Bernard:  1.  Mary  Lawrence.  2.  Amelia 
married  Henry  S.  Crispell.  3.  Sarah  Crispell 
Bernard. 


The  first  one  of  this  family  of 
RICARD  whom  we  have  any  definite  in- 
formation is  John  Ricard,  or 
Ricardo,  as  the  name  was  originally  spelled. 
He  was  a  native  of  Bordeaux,  was  educated 
in  the  school  of  that  city,  and  his  vocation  in 
life  was  that  of  a  medical  doctor.  In  Bor- 
deaux, where  he  followed  his  profession,  he 
enjoyed  the  reputation  of  being  a  leading 
authority  on  medicine  and  consultation.  He 
moved  to  New  York  and  there  married  Maria 
Dilford  and  had  five  children:  1.  Mary,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Connor.  2.  Mary  Agnes,  mar- 
ried (first)  John  Freedy,  (second)  Edward 
Randolph,  (third)  David  Van  Name.  3. 
George,  born  December  25,  1841,  died  in  1862. 
4.  Catharine,  married  Peter  Coyler.  5.  John 
Augustus,  mentioned  below.  Dr.  Ricard 
eventually  went  back  to  Bordeaux  where  he 
died. 

(II)  John  Augustus,  son  of  Dr.  John  and 
Maria  (Dilford)  Ricard,  was  born  at  No.  16 
Christie  street,  New  York  City,  December  25, 
1820,  died  December  30,  1905.  He  received 
a  liberal  education,  and  at  an  early  date  began 
his  career  as  a  merchant.  For  several  years 
he  engaged  in  the  grain  business,  meeting  with 
marked  success.  He  subsequently  retired 
from  this  business  and  joined  the  police  force 
of  New  York  City.  He  was  promoted  first 
aid  to  Chief  Matrell  on  his  staff.  After  sev- 
eral years'  service  in  the  police  department, 
he  became  president  of  the  old  Coney  Island 
Railroad  Company  and  he  resigned  from  tlii< 
to  engage  in  the  hotel  business,  remaining  in 
this  a  short  time.  He  then  retired  from  active 
business.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  but 
never  held  public  office.  He  took  great  in- 
terest in  military  matters.  He  enlisted  in  the 
Ninth  Regiment  New  York  National  Guard, 
and  served  for  several  years  as  color  sergeant. 
He  married,  October  3,  1842,  Maria  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Doreco  (Mercle)  Laytin. 
Three  children:  1.  William  Laytin,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Elizabeth  Matilda,  born  October  17, 
185 1,  married  Frederick  A.  Foggin.     3.  Ellen 


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Louise,   born   July   21,    1857.   married  George 
Van  Name ;  one  child,  William. 

(Ill  1    William  Laytin,  sun  of  John  Augus- 
tus and  Maria  A.  (Laytin)    Ricard,  was  born 
in  Williamsburg,  New  York  City,  August   13, 
1849.     At   the  age  of  seven  years  he  entered 
No.  ij  public  school  on  Madison  street,  where 
he    remained    four   years.      He    then    received 
private  instruction  until  he  was  fifteen   years 
of    age.    when    his    father    moved    to    Staten 
Island,  where  he  attended  the  Briggs  Private 
School  at    Mariner's   Harbor  until   the   family 
returned  to  New  York  City,  in  1857.     He  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  the  same  private  school 
until  1851),  and  then  entered  the  shipping  busi- 
ness in  New  York.     In  1803  he  became  ship- 
ping clerk  in  the  office  of  Layton  &  Hulbert,  at 
No.   84-86-88   South   street,  New  York  City. 
He  remained  with   this   company   three  years 
and  then  resigned.     He  became  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Young  &  Davidson,  manufacturers 
of  crackers  and   biscuits.     He  was  promoted 
manager  of  the  company,  which  office  he  held 
until  about    1872.   when   he  resigned   his  posi- 
tion to  engage  in  the  cigar  and  tobacco  busi- 
ness.    In  [876  he  disposed  of  this  business  and 
retired  from  active  work.     He  is  a  stockholder 
in    the    First    National    Rank    of    Brooklyn, 
founded  by  his  grandfather,  William   Laytin, 
who   served   for  many  years  as  its   president. 
In    politics   he   is   a    Democrat,   but   has   never 
aspired  to  office.     He  enlisted.  May   10,   1801, 
in    the    Eighty-second    Regiment    New    York 
Volunteer   Infantry,  then  under  command  of 
Colonel   Lyons,      lie   took  part   with   his  com- 
mand in  two   (first  Bull  Run  and  second  Bull 
Run)    battles,   and   was  honorably  discharged 
from  the  service  in   [863.     lie  is  a  member  of 
the  Staten  Island  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
took  an  active  part  in  all  of  its  affairs.     He  was 
a  member  of  Peterson  Engine  Company,  No. 
31,  New  York  Volunteers,  for  four  years,  and 
then  joined  the  Zepher  Hose  Company,  No.  4. 
After  a   service  of   four  years   with   this  com- 
pany he  joined  Washington  Engine  Company, 
No.   1.  at   Port   Richmond,      lie  was  promoted 
foreman  of  the  company,  retaining  this  office 
two    years,    when    he    joined    Port    Richmond 
Engine  Company,   No.  3,  as  exempt  member. 
He  remained   in   the  service  of  this  company 
until   it    was   finally   disbanded    under   the  con- 
solidating act  of  the  Greater  New  York  City 
Charter.     I  le  is  an  attendant  of  the  Dutch  Re- 


formed   church    of    Port    Richmond,    Stater 
Island. 

He  married,  November  13,  1X114,  Josephinf 
Coates,  born  at  Port  Richmond,  May  13,  1847 
The  marriage  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr 
James  Brownlee.  Her  father,  Malachi  Wil- 
son Coates.  of  Currituck  county.  North  Caro- 
lina, was  for  some  years  a  sea  captain  and 
later  became  a  prosperous  oyster  planter  and 
dealer  on  Staten  Island  and  in  the  south.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  died  in  Port 
Richmond,  <  Ictober  26,  moo,  aged  ninety-nine 
years,  six  months  and  eleven  days.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Eliza  Martling ;  one  child,  Peter 
Coates.  He  married  (second),  September  30, 
1838,  Hannah  Anna  Martling,  born  November 
18,  1816,  sister  of  his  first  wife;  she  died  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1877.  Four  children:  Annie  Post, 
Wynice  Anna.  Isaac  Van  Duzer,  born  April 
23.  1844.  and  Josephine,  mentioned  above. 
Two  children  have  been  born  to  William  Lay- 
tin  and  Josephine  (Coates)  Ricard:  Maria 
Augusta,  born  May  13,  1870,  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Port  Richmond,  and  now  re- 
sides with  her  parents ;  George  Timothy  Reed 
Crawford,  born   1874,  died  1878. 


Like    nearly    all    Dutch 
VAN   ALSTINE     names    beginning    with 

"Van,"  this  is  derived 
from  a  place.  It  is  a  very  old  name  in  Europei 
and  has  flourished  under  many  different  forms, 
being  traced  hack  to  the  crowning  of  Otho  in 
936.  It  is  found  under  the  names  of  Wald- 
stein  and  Wartenberg  in  Flanders  before  1236,; 
in  Spanish  it  is  rendered  Balstein,  in  the 
French  Vallenstein.  In  Flanders  it  was  often 
rendered  Halsteyn,  and  in  Holland,  Alstein. 
In  the  early  New  York  records  it  is  written 
Van  Aelstcvn,  Van  Aalsteyn,  Van  Alstyn,  Van 
Alstein,  Van  Alstyne  and  Van  Alstine.  The 
last  two  forms  are  those  now  most  in  use  and 
in  some  cases  the  prefix  "Van"  has  been 
dropped.  Members  of  the  familv  in  this 
country  have  been  generally  identified  with 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  The  name  was 
prominent  during  the  revolution  in  New  York, 
and  its  representatives  have  been  among  the 
most  loyal,  progressive  and  useful  citizen? 
down  to  the  present  date.  In  Holland  the 
name  was  frequently  written  Van  Aelsteijn 
ami  about  1700,  when  the  English  spelling  was 
arlopted  by  the  citizens  of  New  York,  it  was  | 
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:veral   branches    of   the    family   adopted   the 
jelling  Van  Alstyne.     Since   1880  a  diligent 
■arch  has  been  made  for  the  earliest  traces 
f  the   family   in   New  York,   but   the  actual 
me  of  their  arrival  has  not  been  established. 
(I)    Jan   Martense   de   wever,    (in   English 
jhn,    the    son    of    Martin,    by    occupation    a 
eaver)   was  in  New  York  as  early  as  1646, 
;  which  time  he  joined  with  another  in  the 
urchase  of  a  yacht.     His  wife  was  Dirckje 
[armense    (daughter  of   Harmen )    and   they 
ad  a  son  Martin,  baptized  July  18,   1655,  at 
le  Dutch  church  of  New  Amsterdam  (  New 
ork).    Jannetje  Martense,  who  was  supposed 
)  have  been  a  sister  of  Jan  Martense,  came 
•om  the  principality  of  Holstein,  and  it  is  sup- 
osed  that  Jan  and  his  wife  also  came  from 
lat  locality.   She  was  the  wife  of  Jan  Thomas 
lingael,  the  ancestor  of  the  Whitbeck  family 
rom   Widbek-Holstein.      In    1656   Jan    Mar- 
;nse  was  living  at  Beverwyck  (now  Albany), 
nd  continued  to  reside  there  until  1664,  when 
e  hired  land  on  the  "Island  Schodack"  from 
is     brother-in-law,     Jan     Tomase     Mingael 
Whitbeck).     From  this  Jan  was  ousted  by 
'atroon  Van  Rensselaer  and  he  returned  to 
dbany  where  he  lived  on  the  property  which 
e   purchased    in    1657    on    the    east    side    of 
Sroadway  and  north  of  Columbia  street,  and 
■hicli  he  continued  to  own  until  1695,  when  he 
old  it.     In  if>jo  Jan  Martense  and  wife  were 
ne  owners  of  farms  "behind  Kinderhook"  at 
place  called  "Pompoenick"  and  there  they 
esided  until  their  deaths.    The  wife  died  after 
687,  and  the  husband  after  1701.     This  land 
emained  in  the  possession  of  their  descendants 
iown  to   1897  and  later.     Jan  Martense  was 
>ne  of  the  charter  members  named  in  the  Don- 
;an  Charter  erecting  the  town  of  Kinderhook 
n  1686.    Children:  1.  Martin  Jans,  born  1655; 
narried    Jannetje     Cornelius     (Bogert).       2. 
Abraham,  mentioned  below.     3.  Lambert,  born 
.bout  1659:  married  his  cousin  Jannetje  Min- 
,rael.      4.    Isaac,    born    about    1661  ;    married 
first)    Maritje  Yosburgh,   (second)   Jannetje 
/an    Valkenburg.      5.    Dorothy,    born    about 
,663;  married  Jacob  Vosburgh.     About  1703 
he  eldest  and  youngest   sons   removed   from 
"Cinderhook  to  Canajoharie,  where  they  pur- 
:hased  several  hundred  acres  of  land  in  the 
Mohawk  Valley,  and  about  1730  Martin  Jans, 
he  eldest,  erected  there  a  large  stone  mansion 
vhich  is  still  standing,  and  during  the  revolu- 


tion was  barricaded  and  called  "Fort  Van 
Rensselaer." 

(II)  Abraham,  second  son  of  Jan  and 
Dirckje  (Harmense)  Martense,  was  born 
about  1657.  He  resided  upon  the  paternal 
lands  near  Kinderhook.  In  1686  he  was  an 
ensign  in  colonial  service  and  was  a  cap- 
tain of  militia  in  1714.  He  was  twice  married, 
the  name  of  the  first  wife  being  unknown.  The 
second  was  Maritje  Van  Deusen,  whom  he 
married  January  17,  1694.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife:  Johannes,  Mattheus,  Dirckje,  died 
young ;  Sander,  Abraham,  Leena,  Isaac, 
Dirckje,  grandmother  of  President  Martin 
Van   I'.uren;  Catryntje,  Jacobus,  Martin. 

(III)  Abraham  (2).  fourth  son  of  Abraham 

(1)  and  Maritje  (Van  Deusen)  Van  Alstine, 
was  born  August  15,  1703,  in  the  town  of 
Kinderhook.  He  resided  there  and  married 
there,  September  29,  1734,  Weintje  Conyn, 
daughter  of  Leendert  Phillipse  de  Konyn  and 
his  wife  Emmetje  Van  Alen.  Children :  Phil- 
ippus,  mentioned  below ;  Abraham,  born 
March  4,  1734:  Leendert,  September,  1743: 
Emmetje,  October  11,  1745,  married  Colonel 
Samuel  Ten  Brook,  a  revolutionary  officer. 

(IV)  Philippus.   eldest   child   of   Abraham 

(2)  and  Weintje  (Conyn)  Van  Alstine,  was 
born  September  16,  1735,  at  Kinderhook.  He- 
lived  at  Poelsburgh  now  in  town  of  Stuyves- 
ant.  He  was  colonel  of  the  Rensselaerwyck 
Regiment  from  1775  to  1798,  and  with  a  part 
of  his  command  was  in  active  service  in  Try- 
on  county.  New  York,  at  several  periods  dur- 
ing the  revolution.  He  married,  July  8,  1761, 
his  cousin,  Maritje  (Mary)  Van  Alstine. 
daughter  of  his  uncle,  Isaac  Van  Alstine  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Van  Alen.  Children: 
Abraham  Philip,  mentioned  below;  Isaac  P., 
born  October  1,  1764;  Weintje,  August  15, 
1766;  John  P.,  March  2,  1770. 

(V)'  Abraham  Philip,  eldest  child  of  Philip- 
pus  and  Mary  (Van  Alstine)  Van  Alstine.  was 
born  May  16,  1762,  in  Poelsburgh,  then  in 
town  of  Kinderhook,  where  he  made  his  home. 
He  married,  in  1784,  Catalyne,  daughter  of 
John  and  Cornelia  (Vosburgh)  Gardinier. 
Children:  Maria,  born  February  20,  1785: 
Cornelia,  January  15,  1792;  Philip  Abraham, 
mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Philip  Abraham,  only  son  of  Abra- 
ham Philip  and  Catalyne  (Cardinier)  Van 
Alstine,  was  born  February  20,  1799,  in  Poels- 


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burgh,  then  in  town  of  Kinderhook,  where  he 
was  a  farmer.  He  married,  June  1,  1820, 
Alida,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth 
(  Smith )  Vanderpool.  Children :  Abraham 
Philip,  mentioned  below  ;  Andrew  Vanderpool, 
born  March  1,  1823;  Caroline.  February  9, 
1825;  James,  January  31,  182') ;  Joseph 
Toombs,    I  uly  31,  1836. 

(VII)  Abraham  Philip  (2),  eldest  child  of 
Philip  Abraham  and  Alida  (  Vanderpool)  Van 
Alstine,  was  born  June  4,  1821,  in  Poelsburgh, 
situated  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the  town 
of  Stuyvesant,  Columbia  county.  New  York. 
He  married,  January  15,  1844,  Anna  Maria, 
daughter  of  James  and  Maria  (Morrison) 
Beneway.  Children:  Philip,  mentioned  below  ; 
lames  Morrison,  Elizabeth  Caroline,  Eldorus, 
Mary  Augusta. 

(VIII)  Philip,  eldest  son  of  Abraham 
Philip  (2)  and  Anna  Maria  (Beneway)  Van 
Alstine,  was  born  at  Poelsburgh  in  the  town 
of  Stuyvesant,  Columbia  county.  New  York, 
lie  was  educated  in  district  schools,  Schodack 
Academy,  Volkert  Whitbeck's  Classical  School 
at  Albany,  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Commercial 
College.  lie  studied  law  at  Hudson,  New 
York,  with  Beale  &  Benton,  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  New  York  City.  1868.  He  became  a 
resident  of  Spring  Valley,  Rockland  county, 
New  York,  1887.  Delegate  to  Democratic 
National  Convention  at  Chicago,  1892;  counsel 
for  the  town  of  Ramapo  and  the  village  of 
Spring  Valley,  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
several  years :  member  of  Holland  and  Colum- 
bia Countv  Societies ;  member  of  Reformed 
church  ;  in  politics,  an  Independent  Democrat. 
He  married,  September  2.  1874.  at  Austerlitz, 
Columbia  county.  New'  York,  Amelia  A., 
daughter  of  Roger  and  Silence  (  Crowter ) 
Haskell.  Children :  Anna  Amelia.  Daisy 
Mabel,  Edna  May.  The  eldest  of  these  was 
married  at  Spring  Valley,  New  York,  Febru- 
ary 21,  1900,  to  Percival  Van  Orden,  son  of 
Peter  S.  and  Mary  Ann  ( Hopper )  Van 
Orden,  and  has  a  daughter,  Mabel  Van  Alstine 
Van  Orden. 


It  is  strongly  claimed  that  the 
HASKELL     name    Haskell    is    of    Norse 

origin.  The  name  is  traced 
hack  in  English  manuscripts  in  an  unbroken 
line  from  Surrey  Osberne  Haskell,  of  Rowl- 
stone  castle,  Herefordshire.  England,  who  was 
born  1 54 1,  and  married  Sarah  Finderne,  1580, 


to  Oscytel,  a  Norse  king,  who  landed  in 
Northumberland,  England,  in  the  year  800. 

Surrey  (  )sberne  Haskell,  died  1642,  leaving 
a  son  Edward,  born  1581. 

Edward  Haskell  married  Viola  Patterson, 
1605,  and  had  children:  Edward,  born  1606; 
William.  1(107;  Roger,  1608;  Mark,  1609.  The 
three  brothers,  William,  Roger  and  Mark  em- 
igrated from  Bristol,  England,  in  1628,  and 
settled  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  that  part 
of  Salem  now  called  Beverly,  then  known  as 
Cape  Ann  side. 

Roger  Haskell  married  Elizabeth  Hardy  at 
Salem  about  the  year  1655.  Children:  Samuel, 
born  about  1656;  Mark,  about  1657;  Roger, 
about  1658. 

Mark  Haskell  married  Mary  Smith,  March 
20,  [678.  Children:  Roger,  born  October  17, 
1680,  married  Joanna  Swift,  January  25,  1709; 
John,  February  14,  1682. 

John  Haskell  married  Mehitabel about 

1710.  Children:  Roger,  born  March  8,  171I, 
married  Alice  Spooner ;  Zachariah,  April  II, 
1718. 

Zachariah  Haskell  married  Keziah  Goi&i 
August   20.    i74'>.     Child:   Roger,  born  ApriL 

-'•  t753' 

Roger  Haskell  married  Mary  Webster,  May 
10,  1781.  Children:  Daniel,  born  February 
13,  1782:  Mary,  March  18,  1783;  Zachariah, 
November  3,  1784:  Simon,  February  2,  1787;; 
Patience,  April  14,  1789;  Huldah,  June  13, 
i7<ji  ;  Fbenezer,  July  15.  1794;  Sylva,  March 
28,  i"97'.  Parthenia,  June  13,  1799;  Sally,  Au- 
gust 15.  1801;  Allen,  June  28,  1803;  Lester 
February  15,  1805;  Luzillah.  February  21 
1807. 

Zachariah  Haskell  married  Unity  Anderson 
widow  of  Calvin  Geer,  April  3,  1810.  Chili 
dren  :  Chloe,  born  April  8,  1812;  Anna,  De, 
cember  19.  1813;  Anderson,  November  15! 
1815;  Roger,  March  17,  1818;  Dehlia,  OcUk 
her  12,  1821  ;  Zachariah,  November  12,  1823 
Herman,  May  17,  1826. 

Roger  1  laskell  married  Silence  Crowter,  0 
Austerlitz,  New  York,  daughter  of  Rober 
and  Ruth  (Harmon)  Crowter,  December  19 
1842.  Children :  Ruth  Maria,  spinster,  borr 
at  Austerlitz,  New  York,  October  11.  1843 
Amelia  Ann.  born  at  Peru.  Massachusetts 
June  18,  1848,  graduate  of  Canaan,  Nev 
York,  Classical  Institute,  and  Albany  Norma 
College,  Principal  of  Union  Free  School  a 
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roman's  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
eformed  Church  in  America.  Married,  Sep- 
mber  2,  1874,  Philip  Van  Alstine,  counsellor- 
j-lavv.  Now  a  resident  of  Spring  Valley, 
ew  York. 


The  founder  of  the  Bogar- 

BOGARDUS     dus  family  in  America  was 

the   famous  Dominie  Ever- 

dus  Bogardus,  pastor,  counsellor  and  friend 

I    the  early  Dutch  settlers  of  New  Amster- 

jim,  who  cheered  them  amid  their  toils  and 

llversities  and  in  dark  hours  of  peril ;  joined 

iany  of  them  in  marriage ;  baptized  their  chil- 
•en ;  oft  performed  in  their  stricken  homes 
e  last  sad  rites  and  frequently  acted  as  guar- 
an  of  their  estates.  He  was  the  first  settled 
linister  of  the  Dutch  church  at  New  Am- 
jerdam,  where  he  continued  until  his  last  trip 
I  Holland  in  1647.  He  sailed  from  New 
Imsterdam  in  the  ship  "Princess"  in  company 
lith  Director  Kieft,  August  16,  1647.  On 
!:ptember  27,  having  mistaken  their  course, 
ley  were  wrecked  upon  a  rock  on  the  coast 
t.  Wales.  Dominie  Bogardus  and  Director 
jieft  both  perished,  although  many  were 
.ved.  (For  an  extended  account  of  his  ca- 
er  see  Bogardus  in  Gray  family  history.) 
e  was  a  valuable  man  in  the  settlement,  his 
(vice  was  constantly  sought  in  matters  af- 
icting  both  individuals  and  the  community 
id  the  amount  of  public  business  with  which 
was  intrusted  on  his  final  departure  for 
olland  evinced  the  continued  respect  and  con- 
ience  of  his  people.  He  married,  June  21, 
542,  Anneke  (Annetje)  Jans,  or  Jansen,  who 
id  a  grant  of  sixty-two  acres  between  the 
■esent  Warren  and  Christopher  streets,  New 
ork  City.  This  land  has  probably  caused 
ore  bitter  controversy  than  any  other  on 
irth.  It  forms  the  basis  of  dispute  between 
heirs  of  Anneke  and  Domine  Bogardus 
i  the  one  hand  and  Trinity  church  corpora- 
on  on  the  other.  Its  immense  value  makes 
le  ownership  a  prize  worth  striving  for  and 
rce  legal  battles  have  been  fought  over  it. 
he  title,  however,  seems  to  rest  with  Trinity 
irporation.  After  the  death  of  Dominie  Bo- 
irdus,  his  widow  took  up  her  residence  in 
lbany,  continuing  there  until  her  death  in 
563.  Children :  William,  in  1656  a  clerk  in 
le  secretary's  office  in  New  Amsterdam  and 
1  1687  postmaster  of  the  province;  Comelis, 
iptized    September    9,    1640.    in    New   York- 


City,  later  of  Albany,  married  Helena  Teller; 
Johannes  or  Jonas,  baptized  January  4,  1643; 
Pieter,  baptized  April  2,  1645,  resided  in 
Albany  until  near  the  close  of  his  life,  when 
he  removed  to  Kingston,  where  he  died  in 
1703.  In  1673  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates 
of  the  town  and  in  1690  was  commissioned 
with  others  to  treat  with  the  Five  Nations  and 
to  look  after  the  defence  of  the  town.  He 
made  his  will  February  3,  1701-2.  He  mar- 
ried Wyntje  Cornells  Bosch. 


Some  idea  of  the  origin  of 
LEAYCRAFT     this  name  may  be  had  if 

we  consider  the  words, 
Lay  or  Leay,  which  may  be  derived  from  the 
French  word  Laie,  which  is  the  term  to  de- 
scribe a  lane  through  a  forest.  Lay  in  the 
sense  in  which  it  is  used  in  the  compound 
word,  Layman,  not  meaning  clerical  or  pro- 
fessional, is  clearly  not  the  sense  in  which  it 
is  used  here.  In  the  latter  sense  the  word 
was  used  by  Ben  Jonson,  the  British  poet. 
The  word  or  that  form  of  it  occurs  in  the 
Hundred  Rolls  of  England  as  a  personal  name. 
There  are  also  other  names,  evidently  Norman 
in  origin,  such  as  Le  Lay,  Du  Lay  and  De 
Lay.  The  name  has  been  spelled  in  this  form 
since  the  year  1743  in  this  country. 

(I)  Captain  Viner  Leaycraft  was  com- 
mander of  the  privateers,  "Potter,"  from  1743 
to  1748,  and  of  "King  George"  from  1756  to 
1763.  His  will  was  probated  August  24,  1784, 
and  recorded  September  24,  1784. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Captain  Viner  Leaycraft, 
served  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  revolution 
on  the  sloop,  "Montgomery,"  entering  the  ser- 
vice, April  18,  1776. 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (1)  Leaycraft, 
died  January  10,  1844,  aged  sixty-five  years, 
buried  from  his  residence,  No.  130  Thirteenth 
street.  New  York  City. 

(IV)  Anthony  D.,  son  of  John  (2)  Leay- 
craft, was  born  in  New  York  City,  October 
15,  1824,  died  there,  April  21,  1898.  He  was 
engaged  in  the  express  business,  and  was  well 
known  in  his  line  of  trade.  He  was  a  Whig  in 
politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church.  He  married  Hannah  Thompson, 
born  July  25,  1828,  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
died  May  3,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Elizabeth  Thompson.  The 
marriage  took  place  March  8,  1848,  the  Rev. 
J.    Dowling,    D.D.,    officiating.      Children:    1. 


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John  Edgar,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, born  March  30,  [852  ;  married,  February 
22,  1872.  John  Morrison  Chesborough.  3. 
Hannah  Augusta,  born  January  2,  1863;  mar- 
ried Dr.  Charles  Sumner  Benedict.  4.  Fg- 
bert  Rinehart,  born  February  24.  1869;  mar- 
ried Louise   Belle  Haddon. 

(  V  1  John  Edgar,  eldest  son  of  Anthony  D. 
and  Hannah  (Thompson)  Leaycraft,  was 
born  March  15,  1849,  in  New  York  City.  He 
established  the  firm  of  John  Edgar  Leaycraft 
&  Company  in  the  real  estate  business  and  is 
now  located  at  No.  30  East  Forty-second 
street.  The  members  of  the  firm  have  built 
up  a  large  and  lucrative  business  and  stand 
high  in  their  profession.  John  Edgar  Leay- 
craft is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  in  religion 
a  member  of  tlie  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
He  married,  in  Sing  Sing,  Westchester  county, 
New  York,  November  25,  1874,  Caroline 
Crawford,  born  March  19,  1847.  daughter  of 
Morris  De  Camp  and  Charlotte  (  Holmes ) 
Crawford.  Morris  De  Camp  Crawford  was 
born  FVbruary  19,  1819,  in  Albany,  New 
York.  Charlotte  (Holmes)  Crawford  was 
born  April  14,  1822,  in  Xewburgh,  New  York, 
died  in  [886.  The  marriage  took  place  No- 
vember 20,  1844,  at  Newburgh,  New  York. 
Joseph  Crawford,  father  of  Morris  De  Camp 
Crawford,  was  born  February  10,  1785,  died 
August  ').  1832.  He  married,  December  31, 
[806,  Mary  Barker.  The  children  of  Joseph 
Crawford  were:  Caroline,  Lemuel,  Sarah, 
Elijah,  Joseph  Barker,  Mary,  Morris  De  Camp, 
mentioned  above  ;  Almira,  Susan  '  (phelia.  The 
children  of  Morris  De  Camp  Crawford  were: 
1  ( iilbert  Holmes,  born  1849;  married  Sarah 
Merritt.  2.  Morris  Barker,  born  1852;  mar- 
ried Caroline  Rice.  3.  Caroline,  mentioned 
above,  born  1847;  married  John  Edgar  Leay- 
craft. 4.  Hanford,  born  1854:  married  Ger- 
trude Smith.  5.  Frank  Lindsay,  burn  [856; 
married  Genevieve  Buckland.  '>.  William 
Herbert,  born  i860;  married  Mina  Paine. 
Children  of  John  Edgar  and  Caroline  (Craw- 
ford) Leaycraft:  1.  Agnes,  born  April  25, 
187(1;  married,  June  14,  1906,  Thomas  S.  Don- 
ohugh ;  children :  Agnes  Caroline,  born  No- 
vember 30,  1907,  New  York,  and  Crawford 
Edgar,  burn  December  2^,  1010,  in  India.  2. 
Edgar   Crawford,   mentioned   below. 

(VI)  Edgar  Crawford,  son  of  John  Edgar 
and  Caroline  (Crawford)  Leaycraft,  was 
bom  in  New  York  City.  November  12,  1880. 


He  attended  the  Collegiate  School  in  New 
York  City  when  he  was  eight  years  old  and 
continued  bis  studies  for  six  years.  Then  he 
went  to  Cutler  School  in  New  York  City  and 
remained  there  four  years.  In  1898  he  entered 
Harvard  University  and  remained  until  1902, 
graduating  the  same  year  and  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  B.A.  He  joined  his  father  in  the  real 
estate  business  and  is  still  connected  with  the 
same,  being  now  a  member  of  the  firm.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Cavalry,  National  Guard,  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Harvard  Club, 
New  York  City ;  the  Lawyers'  Club,  New 
York  City  ;  and  the  Union  League  Club.  In 
religion  he  is  a  Methodist,  and  attends  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Madison 
avenue,  New  York  City,  lie  married.  June 
},  ]()\^,.  lulia  Searing  in  Saugerties,  New, 
York.   ' 


The  ancestors  of  this 
VAN  (  IRDEN  family  came  from  Naar- 
den,  a  small  village  in  Hol- 
land, hence  the  name  Wan  Naarden  (  from 
Naarden).  Two  forms  of  the  name  are  now 
in  general  use  among  the  descendants,  Vani 
Norden  and  Van  Orden. 

( I )  The  earliest  record  now  obtainable  con- 
cerns the  family  of  Peter  Wan  Xaerden  anc- 
his  wife  Aneckje  Jans,  the  latter,  of  course 
being  a  daughter  of  a  man  named  Jan.  The) 
were  residents  of  New  Amsterdam  (New 
York)  prior  to  1654,  and  in  1655  Peter  wa: 
the  owner  of  property  as  shown  by  the  fac 
that  he  was  taxed  five  dollars  to  pay  debt  in 
curred  in  erecting  the  city  defenses.  In  th> 
previous  year  he  was  appointed  a  beer  carrier 
In  16(14  he  owned  a  lot  with  a  frontage  o 
twenty-two  feet,  situated  at  the  southwes  > 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Marketfield  streel 
in  Xew  Amsterdam,  where  he  resided  with  hi 
wife  and  died  soon  after.  For  several  vear 
following  his  death  his  widow  continued  to  re 
side  there,  but  in  1686  her  home  was  on  th 
west  side  of  Broad  street  at  which  time  sll 
was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  church.  The  bap 
tismal  records  of  that  church  give  the  follow 
ing.  but  undoubtedly  there  were  other  chi 
dren :  Jan,  baptized  October  4,  1654;  Engeltiu 
April  14.  1658;  Metje.  April  14,  1658;  Caspe  , 
February  15,  t66o;  Tryntie,  December  1; , 
1662.  The  church  records  of  Hackensac:' 
show   that    Andriese,   undoubtedly  a   child   c 


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'eter  and  Aneckje,  was  born  about  1670,  in 
>Jew  York. 

(II)  Andriese  (Andrew)  Janse  Van  Or- 
en  was  residing  in  the  vicinity  of  Hackensack 
s  early  as  1700,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Schraalenburg  church  with  his  second  wife 
iefore  1733.  The  Hackensack  records  say  he 
vas  born  in  New  York  and  the  date  must  have 
een  in  the  vicinity  of  1675.  He  married 
first  )  at  Hackensack,  August  31,  1700,  Rachel 
Demarest,  born  June  4,  1680,  at  Hackensack, 
lied  before  June,  1710,  daughter  of  David 
nd  Rachel  (Cresson)  Demarest.  He  mar- 
ied  (second)  Antie  Laroe.  Children  of  first 
vife:  Jan,  mentioned  below;  Rachel,  baptized 
\pril  2,  1704;  David,  July  13,  1709.  Children 
if  second  wife:  Jacobus  and  Elizabeth 
twins),  baptized  November  4,  171 1  ;  Jannetje, 

November  14,  1714;  Elizabeth,  September  15, 
717;  Petrus,  July  2.  1720;  Wybrege,  January 
.'O,  1723,  all  at  Hackensack;  Andries,  March 
;8,  1729,  at  Tappan. 

(III)  Jan,  eldest  child  of  Andriese  Janse 
md  Rachel  (  Demarest )  Van  Orden,  was  bap- 
ized  September  16,  1701,  at  Hackensack,  and 
robably  lived  in  that  neighborhood  all  his  life. 

married,  September  17,  1728,  at  Hacken- 
ack,  Rachel  Van  Schieve,  and  had  children 
aptized  at  Hackensack:  Andriese,  June  18, 
729;  David,  died  young;  David,  born  May  5, 
733 ;  Stephen,  mentioned  below ;  Lea  and 
chel  (twins),  April  9,  1738;  Jacobus,  June 
3.  1742. 

(IV)  Stephen,  fourth  son  of  Jan  and 
Rachel  (Van  Schieve)  Van  Orden,  was  born 
May  2,  1735,  at  Hackensack,  and  resided  in 
.vhat  is  now  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
hen  a  part  of  Orange.  He  died  before  July 
[7,  1771,  when  his  widow  brought  their  young- 
?st  child  for  baptism  at  the  Tappan  church, 
rle  married,  at  Schraalenburg,  May  31,  1760, 
VTarya  Koning,  born  January  6,  1736,  at  Tap- 
:>an,  daughter  of  Arie  and  Elisabedt  (Hartie) 
Koning.  Thev  had  the  following  children  bap- 
ized  at  Schraalenburg; :  Rachel,  born  May  13, 
[761;  Petrus,  August  14,  1763;  John,  men- 
ioned  below ;  Elizabeth.  January  28,  1769 ; 
Marytje.  July  26,  1771. 

(V)  John,  second  son  of  Stephen  and  Maria 
{ Koning-)  Van  Orden.  was  born  July  8,  1766, 
probably  at  Tappan.  and  was  a  farmer  in  the 
own  of  Ramapo,  Rockland  countv.  New 
^ork.  where  he  was  associated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed    church,    and    in    politics    with    the 


Democratic  party.  He  married,  April  18, 
1795,  at  Tappan,  Elizabeth  Eckerson,  of 
Clarkstown,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Dirckje 
( Westervelt )  Eckerson,  born  December  16, 
1771,  in  Clarkstown,  died  March  11,  1862,  in 
Ramapo.  At  the  time  of  this  marriage  John 
Van  Orden  lived  in  Ramapo,  and  died  there 
April  21,  1837.  Children:  Stephen,  mentioned 
below;  Thomas,  Catherine.  Myers,  Peter, 
Elizabeth  Yourey,  Lucas,  Margaret  Tallman, 
Maria,  Jacob  A.  Van  Riper. 

(VI)  Stephen  (2),  eldest  child  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  ( Eckerson )  Van  Orden,  was 
born  September,  1796,  in  Ramapo,  died  there 
January  25,  1859.  He  was  a  farmer  all  his 
life;  a  member  of  the  True  Reformed  Church, 
and  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  married,  in 
Ramapo,  Elizabeth  Van  Houten,  born  Febru- 
ary 7,  1801,  in  Spring  Valley,  died  there  Janu- 
ary 28,  1889,  daughter  of  Peter  Resolvert  and 
Wentje  (Tallman)  Van  Houten.  Peter  R. 
Van  Houten  was  born  January  11,  1778,  in 
Ramapo,  where  he  died  October  1,  1868.  His 
wife,  born  September  18,  1779,  died  January 
21,  1856.  Children  of  Stephen  Van  Orden: 
John  Stephen,  born  January,  1822.  married 
Jane  Maria  Quackenbush,  and  lived  and  died 
in  Ramapo,  Rockland  county.  New  York ; 
Maria,  1826.  married  Peter  II.  Clark,  died  aged 
twenty-six;  Peter,  died  young;  Peter  S..  men- 
tioned below. 

(VII)  Peter  S.,  youngest  child  of  Stephen 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Van  Houten)  Van  Orden, 
was  born  February  20,  1834,  in  Spring  Valley, 
New  York.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  that  place,  graduating  from  the  high  school. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmithing  which 
he  followed  two  years  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, after  that  about  eight  years  in  Spring 
Valley,  New  York.  Later  he  engaged  in  the 
undertaking  and  livery  business  at  Spring  Val- 
ley in  which  he  continued  over  forty  years, 
having  a  large  patronage.  In  1900  he  organ- 
ized the  firm  of  P.  S.  Van  Orden  &  Sons, 
and  this  establishment  has  built  up  an  exten- 
sive business  in  undertaking  and  embalming 
and  is  thus  at  present  engaged.  Mr.  Van 
Orden  and  family  are  affiliated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  of  Spring  Valley,  and  while 
he  sympathizes  with  the  general  policy  of  the 
Democratic  party  he  is  independent  in  politi- 
cal action.  He  is  a  member  of  Athelstane 
Lodge,  No.  830,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of    Spring   Valley       He   married,   October   4, 


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1859,  at  Nanuet,  Mary  Ann  Hopper,  senior 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Annetje  (Terhune) 
Hopper,  born  March  19,  1836,  at  Nanuet,  her 
father  being  a  farmer  of  that  place,  and  the 
farther  of  children:  Garret,  Albert  Terhune, 
James  Van  Orden,  John  I  lenry,  Mary  Ann 
and  Matilda.  Children  of  Peter  S.  Van  Or- 
den: 1.  Ellen,  born  August  3,  i860;  married 
William  Danforth  Keer,  and  resides  at  Spring 
Valley.  2.  Andrew,  born  November  24,  1864: 
married  Martha  V.  (  >.  Smith.  3.  John  S.,  born 
December  (1,  [867;  married  Ida  Van  Xess.  4. 
Frank  M.,  bum  January  8,  1870;  married  Ma- 
belle  Baird.  5.  Percival,  born  April  16,  1873; 
married  Anna  Amelia  Van  Alsline. 


This  spelling  has  been  quite 
PEARSON  uniformly  preserved  by  the 
members  of  this  family,  al- 
though it  appears  in  numerous  forms  in  the 
early  records  of  New  England,  such  as  Per- 
son, Peirson,  Pierson,  Persune.  There  is  a 
distinct  family,  quite  numerous  in  this  country, 
which  uses  the  spelling  Pierson  The  name 
Pierre  (Peter),  which  was  introduced  into 
England  by  Norman  French  and  anglicized 
into  Pier  or  Piers,  is  the  word  from  which 
comes  the  name  Pierson  or  Pearson.  The 
family  bearing  this  patronymic  includes  many 
citizens  of  high  standing. 

(I)  John  Pearson  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Rowley.  Massachusetts,  in  1643,  an<' 
then  set  up  a  fulling  mill,  the  first  mill  for  this 
purpose  in  America.  He  was  a  man  of  prop- 
erty, and  active  and  prominent  in  the  com- 
munity. His  first  grant  of  land  was  in  the 
"uplands  laid  out  in  the  field  called  Batchelder's 
Plaine"  and  was  "one  house  lott  Containeing 
an  Acre  and  an  halfe  lying  on  the  South  side 
of  Richard  Lighton."  His  name  appears  often 
in  the  town  records  as  grantor  and  grantee  of 
land.  He  was  made  freeman  probably  in  1647, 
and  was  one  of  the  "five  men."  or  selectmen, 
and  as  a  representative  of  the  town  opposed 
the  tyrannous  acts  of  Sir  Edmond  Andros. 
and  was  fined.  He  was  representative  in  1678, 
was  made  deacon,  October  24,  if>8('>,  and  died 
December  22,  1603.  His  wife,  Dorcas,  sur- 
vived him  nine  years,  dying  January  12,  1703. 
Children:  Mary,  died  young;  John',  born  De- 
cember 27.  1644;  Elizabeth,  October  17.  1652; 
Jeremiah,  October  25.  1653;  Sarah,  May' 3, 
1655;  Toseph,  August  21,  1656;  Benjamin. 
April   6,    1658;   Phoebe,   April   13,   1660;  Ste- 


phen, mentioned  below  ;  Sarah,  May  6,  1666 
The  fourth  son,  Joseph,  before  he  was  nine 
teen  years  old,  entered  the  Colonial  service  ir 
what  was  known  as  the  "Flower  of  Essex,' 
and  was  killed  in  a  battle  with  the  Indian! 
near  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  August  25,  1695 

(  II )  Stephen,  sixth  son  of  John  and  Dorcas 
Pearson,  was  born  about  1662,  but  bis  birth  is 
not  recorded  in  Rowley.  1  le  received  from  his 
father  deeds  of  land  on  which  he  resided  ir 
Rowley,  dying  about  the  beginning  of  the  yeai 
170''.  aged  about  forty-four  \ears.  Admin- 
istration of  his  estate  was  granted  March  9 
170'),  and  division  was  made  April  4,  1712 
He  married  Mary  French,  who  survived  hin 
more  than  twenty-four  years,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 2j,  1730,  after  being  bedridden  foi 
many  years.  She  may  have  been  a  daughtet 
of  Stephen  (2)  and  Hannah  French,  of  Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  born  May  11,  1662,  anc 
granddaughter  of  Stephen  (  1  )  French,  whe 
settled  at  Dorchester.  Massachusetts,  in  1630 
removing  soon  after  to  Weymouth.  There 
was  a  large  family  of  this  name  in  Essex 
county,  Massachusetts,  but  the  only  Mary  in 
it  who  could  possibly  have  been  the  wife  of 
Stephen  Pearson,  married  an  Eaton  and  died 
in  1726  Children:  Elizabeth,  born  August  25. 
[685  :  Stephen,  mentioned  below  ;  Martha.  Jury 
6,  1689  :  Mary,  January  7,  1691  ;  Jonathan.  Oc- 
tober 21.  1693,  died  the  same  year;  Patience. 
July  2(1,    [697;   Hephsibah,  January  20,  1699. 

(  III)  Stephen  12),  eldest  child  of  Stephen 
(i)  and  Mary  (French)  Pearson,  was  born 
June  <),  1687,  in  Rowley  baptized  on  the  19th 
of  the  same  month,  and  died  March  18,  1772. 
Undoubtedly  bis  entire  life  was  passed  in  Row- 
ley, where  be  married,  February  27.  171 1, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Elizabeth 
(Kimball)  Jewett,  born  July  16,  1690,  in  Ips- 
wich, Massachusetts,  died  March  3,  1773.  and 
buried  in  Rowley.  Children:  Hannah,  born: 
May  6,  1712:  Jonathan.  February  24,  1714; 
Moses,  mentioned  below;  Amos,  March  22, 
1718;  Mary.  May  3,  1720;  Stephen,  died. 
voting:  Sarah.  June  17.  1724:  Stephen,  Octo-. 
ber  2-,,  1726;  Jeremiah,  baptized  April  13, 
1729;  Rebecca,  August  20.  1731  ;  Patience,  not 
recorded,  but   mentioned   in  her   father's  will. 

(IV)  Moses,  second  son  of  Stephen  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Jewett)  Pearson,  was  baptized 
March  18,  1716,  in  Rowley,  and  lived  in  that 
town  or  the  town  of  Newbury,  died  1794,  ac- 
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in  the  town  of  Newbury.  He  married  in  New- 
bury, January  1,  1739,  Sarah  Greenleaf,  of 
that  town,  born  July  6,  1719,  died  August, 
1792,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Cooper) 
Greenleaf.  Children,  baptized  at  Byfield 
parish  church:  Elizabeth,  May  22,  1743; 
Eunice,  October  6,  1745  ;  Sarah,  November  4, 
1750;  Moses,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Moses  (2),  son  of  Moses  (1)  and 
Sarah  (Greenleaf)  Pearson,  was  born  about 
1740  in  Rowley,  and  was  baptized  at  the  By- 
field  parish  church,  May  18,  1755.  He  settled 
in  the  town  of  Bradford,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  married,  November  9,  1766,  Martha  Goss, 
born  July  n,  1745,  in  Bradford,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mehitable  Goss,  of  that  town.  Chil- 
dren, recorded  in  Bradford:  Moses,  born  Oc- 
tober 8,  1767;  Hittie  (Mehitable),  November 
27,  1768;  Samuel,  mentioned  below;  Mollie, 
born  and  died  in  1772 ;  a  child  died  in  October, 
1774:  John  Tappan,  baptized  January  5,  1777. 

(VI)  Samuel,  second  son  of  Moses  (2)  and 
Martha  (Goss)  Pearson,  was  born  March  30, 
1770,  in  Bradford,  and  settled  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  as  early  as  1796,  dying  there  in 
1836.  He  married  (first)  October  12,  1793, 
Judith  Thurston,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  (Rolfe)  Thurston,  of  Bradford, 
baptized  January  5,  1772,  in  the  Byfield  church, 
and  died  in  1824,  in  Providence.  He  married 
(second)  L.  B.  Coy.  Children:  Luther,  born 
September  21,  1794,  in  Reading,  Massachu- 
^ett^:  Susanna,  November  30.  1705.  in  Read- 
ing, died  in  1796,  in  Providence;  Daniel  Chute, 
April  13,  1798;  William  Coleman,  mentioned 
ftelow;  Harriet  and  Henry,  (twins),  October 
16,  1803;  Samuel,  December  4,  1705;  Susan, 
\llgust  7,  1707;  Henry  Adams,  May,  171 1; 
Martha  G,  December,  1713. 

(VII)  William  Coleman,  second  son  of 
Samuel  and  Judith  (Thurston)  Pearson,  was 
00m  April  16,  1801,  in  Providence,  and  died 
n  January,  1865,  in  Jersey  City.  He  married 
n  Providence,  in  1826,  Mary  Ann  Earle,  born 
Fune  7,  1803,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Amey 
(Arnold)  Earle,  of  Providence  (see  Earle 
VIII).  Children:  Fanny  Earle,  probably  died 
/oung;  William  Earle.  mentioned  below: 
Henry  Augustus,  who  lived  in  Jersey  City, 
\Tew  Jersey. 

(VIII)  William  Earle.  son  of  William 
Toleman  and  Mary  Ann  (Earle)  Pearson,  was 
>orn  July  6,  1830,  died  February  1,  too:;.  He 
•vas  a  manufacturer  of  lumber  and  boxes  in 


Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  and  was  in  partner- 
ship with  his  wife's  father,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Vanderbeek  &  Sons.  The  firm  con- 
ducted a  planing  mill,  lumber  yard  and  box 
factory.  He  married  Susan  Ann  Vanderbeek, 
of  Jersey  City.  Children  :  Frank,  born  Sep- 
tember 26,  1864;  Isaac  Vanderbeek,  mentioned 
below. 

(IX)  Isaac  Vanderbeek,  son  of  William 
Earle  and  Susan  Ann  (Vanderbeek)  Pearson, 
was  born  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  March 
7,  1871.  He  attended  Hasbrouck  Institute  of 
Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  and  Stevens  Prepara- 
tory School  of  Hoboken,  New  Jersey.  The 
first  four  years  of  his  business  life  were  in 
the  employ  of  H.  J.  Hardenbergh,  architect. 
whose  offices  were  at  Twenty-third  street  and 
Fifth  avenue.  New  York  City.  Afterward, 
until  1905,  he  was  associated  in  business  with 
his  father  in  the  manufacture  of  boxes  in  the 
the  firm  of  Vanderbeek  &  Sons.  Since  1905 
he  has  been  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Pearson  & 
Welch,  brokers,  of  No.  25  Broad  street.  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Jersey  City  Club 
and  of  the  New  England  Society  of  New 
York.  In  religion  he  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  in 
politics  a  Republican. 

He  married,  November  1,  1899,  Katherine. 
born  May  19.  1879.  in  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
daughter  of  John  R.  MacKenzie,  granddaugh- 
ter of  George  R.  MacKenzie.  Children 
Katherine  M..  born  November  25,  1004;  Wil- 
liam Earle,  January  2,  1908. 

(The  Earle  Line.) 

This  is  an  old  Rhode  Island  name,  and 
represents  one  of  the  most  prolific  of  New 
England  families.  From  Rhode  Island  the 
family  has  spread  over  the  United  States  and 
is  well  represented  in  nearly  every  state  of  the 
Union.  It  has  been  for  some  time  connected 
with  the  business  historv  of  Jersey  City. 

(I)  Ralph  Earle  was  in  Newport.  Rhode 
Island,  as  early  as  1638,  being  one  of  the  fifty- 
nine  persons  admitted  (  (ctober  1.  of  that  year, 
as  a  freeman  of  the  island  of  Aqueedneck 
(Rhode  Island).  For  many  years  he  bought 
and  sold  land  frequently  in  various  parts  of 
the  island,  and  in  r6=55  a,1('  l^9  se'"ve('  "n  ,nc 
grand  jury.  He  was  appointed  bv  the  court 
commissioners  to  keep  a  house  of  entertain- 
ment, joined  a  company  of  horse.  August  10, 
1667.  and  later  was  chosen  captain.  On  June 
7,  167 1,  he  was  a  member  of  a  special  jury  to 


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try  two  Indians.  Ralph  Earle  claimed  the 
lands  of  the  Dutch  House  of  Good  Hope,  now 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  commenced  a  law- 
suit to  establish  his  claim  against  Richard 
Lord  and  James  Richard,  possessors  of  the 
Dutch  land  about  1667,  Earle  affirmed  that 
he  purchased  the  land  from  Underbill  in  Au- 
gust, [653,  paying  twenty  pounds  sterling  for 
it,  but  Underbill  protested  against  the  claim, 
which  was  probably  well-founded.  Ilis  wife, 
Joan  Savage,  was  born  in  England  in  1594-95. 
They  were  probably  married  in  England.  Their 
children  were:  Ralph,  married  Dorcas 
Sprague ;  William,  mentioned  below;  Mary, 
married  William  Cory;  Martha,  married  Wil- 
liam Wood;  Sarah,  married  Thomas  Cornell. 
(  II )  William,  second  son  of  Ralph  and  Joan 
(Savage)  Earle,  was  born  in  England,  and 
first  appears  in  American  records,  April  2, 
1654,  when  he  and  his  wife  Mary  sold  their 
interest  in  fourteen  acres  of  land,  which  came 
to  the  wife  from  her  parents.  1  le  was  admitted 
a  freeman  at  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  May  11. 
1658,  and  seven  days  later  was  admitted  a 
freeman  of  the  colony  by  the  general  court 
held  at  Warwick.  (  )n  June  S.  of  the  same 
year,  he  was  chosen  to  represent  Bristol  in  the 
general  court  of  trials  at  Newport.  In  part- 
nership with  William  Cory  he  was  given  a 
grant  of  one  and  one-quarter  acres  of  land. 
Mav  1.  1665,  provided  they  maintain  a  wind- 
mill for  the  u^e  id'  the  town.  The  site  of  the 
mill  was  thereafter  known  as  Windmill  Hill 
In  1668  the  wind-mill  had  been  completed,  and 
two  years  later  William  Earle  removed  to 
Dartmouth,  Massachusetts,  where  he  had 
large  interests  and  remained  several  years. 
Ilis  share  of  lands  received  in  the  original 
divisions  exceeded  two  thousand  acres.  The 
general  assembly  for  Rhode  Island  and  Provi- 
dence  plantations  for  the  election  of  general 
officers  of  the  colony  was  held  Mav  6,  1691,  at 
the  house  of  William  Earle,  haying  removed 
from  Newport  because  of  a  prevailing  epi- 
demic. Earle  was  a  deputy  from  Portsmouth 
to  the  general  assemblies  held  at  Providence, 
(  >ctober  25,  1704,  and  at  Newport  Mav  I  and 
July  ,},  1706.  His  will  was  executed  Novem- 
ber 13,  1713,  and  he  died  January  15,  1715. 
He  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
and  Katharine  Walker,  of  Portsmouth.  His 
second  wife.  Prudence,  died  January  18,  1718. 
Children:  Mary,  born  16=55,  married  Tohn 
Borden;  William,  born  at  Portsmouth.  Rhode 


Island;  married  Elizabeth  ;  Ralph,  boi 

1660;  Thomas,  mentioned  below;  Caleb,  ma 

ried    Mary ;   John,   born   at    Portsmout 

married  Mary  Wait;  Prudence,  married  Bei 
jamin  Durfee. 

(III)  Thomas,  third  son  of  William  ar 
Mary  (Walker)  Earle,  born  about  1662,  r 
ceived  land  in  Dartsmouth  from  his  father 
i'«)2  and  settled  thereon.  This  he  sold  in  16c  > 
and  resided  for  a  short  time  in  Portsmout 
Rhode  Island,  but  before  the  close  of  th 
year  he  purchased  forty  acres  of  land  in  Swa 
sea,  Massachusetts,  where  he  settled,  ar 
about  the  same  time  purchased  more  lane 
In  [708  he  sold  a  parcel  exceeding  an  acre  fi 
the  Friends'  Meeting  House,  and  in  1721  so 
his  lands  and  removed  to  Portsmouth.  I 
made  his  will  in  Warwick,  April  2~,  1727.  ai 
died  the  following  day.  The  inventory  of  1 
estate  amounted  to  six  hundred  and  sixty-nil 
pounds,  nineteen  shillings  and  one  penny.  I 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Ma 
Taber,  of  Dartmouth,  born  1670,  died  175 
Children:  William,  Thomas,  Mary,  Olive 
Sarah,  Lydia,  Rebecca. 

(IV)  <  Miver,  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Ma 
(Taber)  Earle,  was  born  about  [695,  in  Swa 
sea,  Massachusetts,  and  resided  for  a  th- 
in New  York  City,  where  he  was  engaged 
the  East  India  trade.  In  1716  he  received 
deed  from  his  father  of  one-half  the  patera 
farm,  and  in  1721  he  purchased  the  remaind 
for  eleven  hundred  pounds  and  settled  up< 
the  homestead,  where  he  died  in  1766.  H 
will,  made  in  that  year,  granted  freedom 
his  negro  slave  Jeff,  to  take  effect  when  t 
apprenticeship  of  the  latter  was  complete 
<  Hiver  Earle  married,  June  9,  1720,  Rebecc 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Martha  (Trip] 
Sherman,  of  Portsmouth.  She  was  a  gran 
daughter  of  Caleb  Sherman  and  great-gran 
daughter  of  Philip  Sherman,  of  Portsmoul 
Children:     Joshua,  Caleb,  Thomas,  Mary. 

(V)  Caleb,  second  son  of  Oliver  and  R 
becca  (  Sherman  )  Earle.  was  born  January  3 
1729,  in  Swansea,  Massachusetts,  where  he  I 
sided  and  died  November  14,  1812.  He  ma 
ried  (first)  October  5,  1745,  Sarah,  daught 
of  Benjamin  and  Isabel  Buffington,  of  Swa 
sea,  born  September  1,  1727,  date  of  death  uj 
known.  He  married  (second)  in  1769,  Ha 
nab,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary"  Chace, 
Swansea,  born  December  12,  1744.  Childr 
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1748 ;  Weston,  mentioned  below ;  Caleb,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1756;  Benjamin,  January  17,  1759; 
Joshua,  October  11,  1762;  David,  May  8,  1764. 
Children  of  second  wife:  Mary,  born  Febru- 
ary 20,  1771  ;  Joanna,  July  13,  1772;  Rebecca, 
July  20.  1774;  Daniel,  August  30,  1776;  Sarah, 
March  11,  1778;  Oliver,  January  24,  1780; 
William,  August  30,  1781  ;  Hannah,  March  15, 

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(VI)  Weston,  eldest  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah 
(Buffington)  Earle,  was  born  April  18,  1750, 
in  Swansea,  where  he  resided  and  passed  away, 
September  5,  1838.  His  body  was  interred  at 
|he  Friends'  Cemetery  at  Somerset.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Hepzibeth  Terry,  (second)  Sarah 
Slade,  (third)  Martha  H.  Smith.  Children  of 
first  marriage :  Caleb,  mentioned  below ; 
Sarah,  born  1777;  Hepzibeth,  1778.  Children 
of  second  wife:  John,  born  May  24,  1790: 
Slade,  October  16,  1791  ;  Edward  S.,  October 
17,  1795.  Child  of  third  wife:  Thomas  G., 
born  October  19,  1823. 

(  YII)  Caleb  (2),  eldest  child  of  Weston  and 
Hepzibeth  (Terry)  Earle.  was  born  February 
25,  1771,  in  Swansea,  and  resided  in  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  where  he  died  July  13, 
1851.  He  married,  September  19,  1796,  in 
Providence,  Amey  Arnold,  born  April  16,  1777, 
in  Foster.  Rhode  Island,  second  daughter  of 
Nehemiah  and  Alice  (Arnold)  Arnold.  Chil- 
dren: Frances,  born  April  16,  1798;  Elizabeth 
T.  September  8,  1800:  Mary  Ann,  mentioned 
below;  Joseph  M.,  July  18,  1810;  Henry,  lune 
I,  1815." 

(VIII)  Mary  Ann,  third  daughter  of  Caleb 
1  _» 1  and  Amey  (Arnold)  Earle,  was  born 
June  7.  1803,  in  Providence,  and  became  the 
wife  of  William  Coleman  Pearson,  of  that 
town   (see  Pearson  VII). 


The  name  Maxwell  is  of 
MAXWELL  Scot  origin,  and  is  found 
among  the  Scotch  and  Irish 
descendants  of  those  Scots  who  originallv 
dwelt  in  the  northeast  part  of  Ireland,  whence 
they  emigrated  in  early  days  to  what  is  now 
Scotland  and  dispossessed  the  Picts,  who  were 
the  aboriginal  inhabitants  of  that  land.  From 
these  two  places  the  name  has  spread  over  the 
whole  world.  In  meaning  the  name  is  made  up 
of  the  prefix  "Mac"  and  the  noun  "swell,  or 
swale,"  the  significance  of  the  combination  be- 
ing "son  or  man  of  the  swale"  that  is  a  dweller 
in  a  low  marshy  valley. 


(I)  Thomas  Maxwell,  the  founder  of  the 
family  at  present  under  consideration,  was 
born  in  Donegal,  Ireland,  in  1786,  and  died  in 
Saugerties,  New  York,  in  1858.  In  1827  he 
came  to  America  with  his  young  wife,  and  for 
a  while  they  stopped  in  Philadelphia,  later  on 
removing  to  the  town  of  Hunter,  Greene 
county,  New  York,  where  he  worked  for 
Colonel  Pratt,  who  appointed  him  superinten- 
dent of  the  building  of  the  Catskill  turnpike 
and  later  made  him  overseer  of  the  turnpike 
at  Palenville.  Afterwards,  Mr.  Maxwell 
bought  a  farm  of  ninety  acres  of  land  at  Quar- 
rvville,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  and  clearing 
it,  lived  there  and  farmed  until  his  death.  Be- 
fore coming  to  America,  he  was  a  soldier  in 
the  British  army  under  Sir  John  Moore  and 
the  Duke  of  Wellington,  and  at  the  battle  of 
Waterloo  he  received  a  medal  for  meritorious 
conduct  and  bravery,  which  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  grandson,  Mr.  James  T.  Max- 
well, referred  to  below.  In  religion  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  England.  He  mar- 
ried in  Ireland.  Elizabeth  Heatherington,  of 
Fermanagh,  Ireland.  Children :  John,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Eliza,  born  in  1820,  married 
George  Sanderson,  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey ; 
James,  born  in  1823  ;  Sarah  Jane,  born  in  1828, 
married  C.  C.  Fiero,  of  Greene  county.  New 
York;  Thomas  (2),  born  in  1832  (q.  v.); 
Isabella,  born  in  1834.  married  Tunis  W.  Van 
Hoesen ;  William,  born  in  1838 ;  Catharine, 
born  in  184 1,  married  Jeremiah  Hommel,  of 
Saugerties. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
(Heatherington)  Maxwell,  was  born  in  Ire- 
land in  1818,  and  died  in  Saugerties,  New 
York,  in  July,  1885.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
progressive  men  of  his  day  and  was  extensively 
engaged  in  the  blue-stone  industry,  maintain- 
ing wholesale  departments  at  Rochester,  New 
York,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  Maiden,  New  York.  He 
was  a  staunch  Republican  in  politics  and  served 
as  a  member  of  the  state  assembly  from  Ul- 
ster county  in  1867.  In  1877  he  was  nominated 
for  congress  against  D.  M.  Dewitt  and  was 
defeated  by  only  seventeen  votes  in  a  strongly 
Democratic  district.  He  married,  in  Philadel- 
phia, in  1842  or  1843,  Sarah  Maxwell,  not  a 
relative.  Children  :  Elizabeth  ;  John  ;  Tames 
T.,  referred  to  below  ;  Emma  and  William  L. 

(III)  James  T.,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Maxwell)  Maxwell,  was  born  in  Quarryville. 


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Ulster  county.  New  York,  October  6,  1854.  and 
is  now  living  at  Saugerties,  New  York.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  private  school  at 
Maiden.  New  York  and  at  Riverview  Military 
Academy,  Poughkeepsie.  When  his  father 
died  he  succeeded  him  in  the  management  of 
the  large  interests  which  fell  to  his  inheritance, 
and  he  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
most  of  Saugerties'  important  industrial  and 
fiduciary  institutions  ever  since.  His  plant 
in  Philadelphia  handles  mostly  granite  and  cut 
stone,  is  fitted  with  special  machinery  and  is 
one  of  the  most  important  plants  of  its  kind 
in  the  country.  Mr.  Maxwell  is  interested  in 
the  .Yew  York  Saugerties  steamboat  lines,  and 
own-  an  interest  in  about  fifteen  coastline 
schooners.  He  is  vice-president  and  director 
of  the  First  National  Hank  of  Saugerties,  a 
trustee  of  the  Saugerties  Savings  Bank,  vice- 
president  of  the  Saugerties  Steamboat  Com- 
pany, president  of  the  Saugerties  Printing  and 
Publishing  Company,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Saugerties  board  of  education. 

He  married,  in  [893,  Charlotte  A.  Haley, 
of  Princeton.  Maine,  born  March  11,  1871. 
Children:  William  L.,  born  July  24,  1894, 
now  attending  Yale  University ;  John,  born 
May  25,  1898;  James  T.,  born  September  17, 
[903 


(II)  Hon.  Thomas  (2) 
MAXWELL  Maxwell,  third  son  of 
Thomas  (  1  )  Maxwell  (q.  v) , 
and  Elizabeth  1  Heatherington)  Maxwell,  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Hunter.  Greene  county, 
New  York,  April  20,  [832,  and  died  at  Sau- 
gerties, New  York,  September  4,  [894.  He 
lived  with  his  parents  in  Kaaterskill,  and  in 
1834  came  to  Quarryville,  where  be  obtained 
his  education  in  the  public  schools.  In  1869  he 
became  a  resident  of  Saugerties,  having  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  bookkeeper  for  his 
brother  John  Later  he  became  interested  in 
the  blue  stone  business,  with  which  he  was 
identified  during  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
lb  was  a  man  who  thought  deeply  on  all  pub- 
lic questions,  and  gave  his  political  support  to 
the  Republican  party,  lie  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  supervisor  in  1877,  and  at  various 
times  filled  several  other  minor  offices  in  the 
village.  During  the  administrations  of  Presi- 
dents Hayes  and  Arthur  he  filled  the  office  of 
postmaster  of  Saugerties,  to  the  general  satis- 
faction  of   the  community.      In    18S7   he   was 


elected  as  a  member  of  assembly.  His  relig- 
ious affiliations  were  with  the  Methodist 
church.  He  was  a  member  of  Ulster  Lodge, 
No.  193,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  He  mar- 
ried, 111  1855,  Jane  A.  Hommel,  born  May  8, 
[837,  and  had  children:  Adelaide;  Wilfred; 
David  W'\,  see  forward;  Sarah;  and  Mabel. 

(Ill)  David  W.,  second  son  of  Hon. 
Thomas  and  Jane  A.  (  Hommel )  Maxwell,  was 
born  at  Saugerties,  July  8,  1863,  and  died  at 
the  same  place,  May  18,  1910.  He  attended 
the  local  schools  and  the  Saugerties  Academy, 
and  early  in  life  turned  his  attention  to  a  busi- 
ness career.  He  was  identified  with  the  blue 
stone  business  of  John  Maxwell's  Sons,  in 
[886  became  superintendent  of  the  business, 
and  continued  in  this  position  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  thorough  business  man,  highly  re- 
spected in  the  community,  and  active  and  use- 
ful as  a  citizen.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  of  the  Saugerties 
Club  and  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which 
he  had  attained  the  Knight  Templar  degree. 
Republican  in  politics,  he  was  active  in  promot- 
ing the  general  interests,  and  was  supervisor 
of  Saugerties  for  ten  consecutive  years,  ending 
in  im>>S.  He  married,  October  it,  1884,  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Harrow,  of  Saugerties. 
Children:  1.  Walter  Maxwell,  born  January 
28,  1888:  a  graduate  of  Rensselaer  Poly- 
technic Institute,  Troy,  New  York-,  June,  1910; 
is  now  employed  by  the  General  Electric  Com- 
pany, in  Schenectady,  New  York.  He  married, 
November  2,  1910,  Anna  M.  Clum,  and  they 
have  a  daughter.  Helen  C,  born  November  1, 
ton.  2.  D.  Leslie  Maxwell,  born  June  7. 
[890,  succeeded  his  father  on  the  latter's  death 
as  superintendent  of  The  John  Maxwell's  Sons  ; 
bluestone  business,  at  Saugerties,  New  York.  I 
He  married,  March  1,  191 1,  Hazel  Terwilliger, 
and  resides  in  Saugerties.  3.  Stewart  Max- 
well, born  January  1,  1893. 


The  names  of  Bergen  and  Van 
BERGEN     Bergen  are  Teutonic  or  German 

in  origin,  and  are  common  ones 
in  Holland  and  Germany,  and  the  adjacent 
territories,  as  well  as  in  Ireland.  In  German 
the  word  signifies  hills,  and  in  most  cases  the 
family  name  has  been  derived  from  the  prox- 
imity or  connection  of  the  original  family  with 
some  hills.  It  is  generally  assumed  in  the  case 
of  the  bearers  of  Teutonic  or  anglicized  names 
in  Ireland  that  they  are  descendants  of  settlers 


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who  have  come  from  England  or  the  Continent 
after  the  establishment  of  surnames.  This 
may  occasionally  be  the  case.  Usually,  how- 
ever, it  is  not.  Thus  the  Irish  Bergens  and 
Mergins,  according  to  O'Hart,  are  really  scions 
of  the  ancient  Milesian  family  of  O'Aimergrin, 
the  Gaelic  prefix  in  their  case  being  dropped  and 
the  name  itself  slightly  metamorphosed  to  suit 
it  to  the  English  tongue.  Concerning  the  Ber- 
gens of  Holland,  Davies  in  his  "History  of 
Holland,"  says  :  "Guelderland  the  States  were 
composed  of  three  orders,  of  which  the  four 
baronial  families  of  Bronkhurst,  Bergen,  Baren 
and  Wissen,  were  esteemed  the  first  families." 

In  the  history  of  the  city  of  Amsterdam, 
the  name  frequently  occurs  among  the  munic- 
ipal officers.  Rietstap  gives  about  a  dozen 
families  of  the  name  as  having  the  right  to 
bear  arms.  The  coat-of-arms  of  one  of  the 
Dutch  families  is  thus  heraldically  described : 
Cuope,  au  d'or  a  trois  lions  de  sable,  arm.  et 
lamp,  de  gules  au  d'argent  a  un  bateau  a  tour- 
bes,  voguant  sur  une  eau,  le  tout  au  nat.  Crest : 
un  lion  issuant  de  sable. 

(I)  Hans  Hansen  Bergen,  immigrant  ances- 
tor of  the  Bergens  of  Long  Island,  New  Jersey, 
and  vicinity,  was  born  at  Bergen,  Norway, 
deriving  his  surname  from  that  circumstance, 
and  died  at  Wallabout,  Brooklyn,  in  1653,  or 
1654.  He  emigrated  from  Norway  to  Hol- 
land, and  from  Holland  he  crossed,  in  1633,  to 
New  Amsterdam  or  New  York.  His  name 
appears  on  the  early  records  in  various  forms, 
his  surname  being  generally  omitted,  some  of 
the  forms  being  "Hans  Hansen  Van  Bergen 
in  Noorwegan,"  "Hans  Hansen,"  "Hans 
Hansz,"  "Hans  Noorman,"  the  term  Noor- 
man,  meaning  Northman,  evidently  referring 
to  Norway.  He  resided  for  some  years  in 
New  Amsterdam,  where  he  owned  and  prob- 
ably occupied  a  lot  on  the  present  Pearl  street, 
abutting  against  the  fort,  lying  between  the  lots 
of  John  Snedeker.  and  that  of  Joris  (George) 
Rapalie.  In  1638  he  was  engaged  in  the  cul- 
tivation of  the  tobacco  plantation  on  the  land 
of  Andries  Hudden  on  Manhattan  Island.  It 
is  evident  also  that  he  was  interested  in  the 
plantation  of  Master  Fixcox,  he  and  Fiscox 
having  taken  possession  of  and  cultivated  a 
tract  of  land  situated  on  the  North  river 
prior  to  the  granting  of  the  patents,  and  be- 
fore he  was  engaged  in  the  cultivation  of 
Hudden's  land.  In  1643  Maryn  Andriaensen 
sold    to    Thomas    Hall,    tobacco    planter,    the 


"plantation  situated  on  the  island  of  Manhat- 
tan on  the  North  river,  heretofore  cultivated 
by  Hans  Hansen."  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  was 
by  occupation  a  ship  carpenter  and  from  an 
agreement  with  Mr.  Moyr,  in  1642,  in  rela- 
tion to  a  yawl,  and  from  a  lawsuit  in  1643,  m 
relation  to  a  sloop,  it  appears  that  he  was  em- 
ployed at  his  trade  in  addition  to  the  cultiva- 
tion of  tobacco  and  farming.  In  the  beginning 
of  1643  the  River  Indians,  who  were  attacked 
by  their  enemies,  the  Mohawks,  fled  to  the  vi- 
cinity of  the  Dutch  settlements  for  protection. 
On  this  some  of  the  settlers  of  Long  Island 
petitioned  the  director  for  leave  to  attack  the 
Mareckkaweck  or  Brooklyn  Indians,  a  band 
of  the  Canarsie  tribe.  This  petition  was 
signed  among  others  by  Hans  Hansen,  from 
which  it  appears  that  at  this  date  he  was  re- 
sident on  Long  Island.  Later  he  fled  to  the 
city  for  safety  from  his  plantation,  of  which 
city  he  was  again  considered  a  resident.  Ac- 
cording to  a  receipt  on  the  register  of  the 
provincial  secretary  it  appears  that  April  2?,, 
1644,  Hans  Hansen  and  George  Rapalie,  his 
father-in-law,  hired  cattle  to  William  Smith, 
of  Stamford,  and  November  29,  1644,  gave  a 
note  to  Cornelis  Maersen,  for  two  hundred 
and  fifty  guilders  for  wheat  bought  from  him. 
In  March,  1^47,  he  obtained  from  Governor 
Kieft  a  patent  for  "a  piece  of  land  situated  on 
Long  Island,"  On  his  two  hundred  morgen 
at  Wallabout  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  resided  as 
early  as  1648  and  continued  to  reside  there 
until  his  death.  There  is  a  tradition  in  the 
family  to  the  effect  that  on  one  occasion  when 
Hans  was  working  in  the  fields  he  was  sud- 
denly surprised  by  a  band  of  Indians.  He 
sought  refuge  in  a  tree  and  believing  that  his 
last  hour  was  perilously  near  he  began  in  a 
strong  and  moving  voice  the  old  Dutch  hymn, 
"In  mijn  grootste  nood,  O'Heere"  (In  my 
greatest  need,  O  Lord).  The  savages  were 
so  charmed  by  the  music  that  they  stayed 
in  their  chase,  thus  giving  him  a  chance  to  get 
away.  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  married,  in  1639, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Joris  (George)  Jamsen 
Rapalie,  born  June  9,  1625.  She  married 
shortly  after  his  death,  Teunis  Gisbertsen  Bo- 
gaert.  Children :  Anneken,  baptized  July 
22,  1640;  Brecktje,  July  27,  1642;  Jan,  April 
17,  1644;  Michiel,  mentioned  below;  Joris, 
July  18,  1649;  Marritje,  October  8,  165 1 ; 
Jacob,  September  21,  1653;  Catalyn,  twin  to 
Jacob. 


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(II)  Michiel  or  Michael,  son  of  Hans  Han- 
sen and  Sarah  (  Rapalie )  Bergen,  was  bap- 
tized November  4.  1646,  in  New  Amsterdam, 
and  died  about  1732.  His  name  appears  on 
March  10,  [661,  to  a  petition  to  the  governor 
fur  more  land.  In  May,  1(1(14,  lie  obtained 
from  Governor  Stuyvesant  a  patent  of  twenty 
morgens  at  New  Bedford  in  Wallabout.  From 
various  deeds  it  would  appear  that  Michiel's 
patent  of  twenty  morgens  in  Bedford  ad- 
joined the  north  side  of  the  road  leading  from 
New  York  to  Brooklyn  ferry  to  Jamaica,  and 
that  he  probably  sold  it  to  Denys  liegeman, 
who  Mild  it  to  Hendrick  Suydam.  After  the 
capture  of  New  Netherlands  from  the  English 
liv  the  Hollanders,  in  October,  1673,  he  was 
appointed  a  lieutenant  of  militia  under  the 
administration  of  Anthon)  Colve,  the  Nether- 
land  governor.  In  1676  and  1683  his  name 
appears  on  the  assessment  rolls  of  Brooklyn 
for  twenty  morgens,  the  amount  of  his  patent, 
on  which  at  the  time  he  probably  resided.  In 
1(17')  his  name  and  that  of  his  wife  appear 
on  the  list  of  the  members  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  Church  of  Brooklyn,  among  the  resi- 
dents of  the  Wallabout,  and  from  1680  to 
[685  he  appears  to  have  held  the  office  of 
deacon  of  the  church.  In  1675  he  was  as- 
sessed in  Brooklyn  one  poll,  two  horses,  seven 
cows  anil  twenty  morgens  of  land  and  valley, 
the  land  valued  at  forty  pounds,  and  the  per- 
sonal property  at  seventy-four  pounds,  the 
total  being  one  hundred  and  fourteen  pounds. 
In  r68o  he  and  Symon  Aessen  were  overseers 
of  Brooklyn.  In  the  same  year  he  is  credited 
on  the  hooks  of  Elbert  Elbertse  Stoothoff,  of 
Flatlands.  with  four  schepels  wheat,  and  also 
charged  for  a  house.  In  Dongan's  patent  of 
Brooklyn  of  [686,  he  is  named  as  one  of  the 
patentees  Between  H..X1  and  n>Sti  he  held 
the  office  of  one  of  the  overseers  or  commis- 
sioners, having  in  charge  town  lands.  In  (  )c- 
tober,  1686,  he  was  a  member  of  the  grand 
jury  and  in  1600  he  was  foreman.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1(1X7.  his  name  appears  among  those 
who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British 
government,  lie  was  sent  with  others  on 
behalf  of  a  company  to  Pennsylvania  to  select 
a  good  tract  of  land  for  a  settlement  and  resi- 
dence. In  1698  he  was  appointed  a  justice  of 
the  peace  by  the  governor,  the  Earl  of  Bello- 
ment,  and  was  one  of  the  justices  of  the  ses- 
sions. There  are  various  records  of  his  buy- 
ing and  selling  lands,  the  last  record  of  him 


being  as  late  as  January  22,  1731.  He  mar- 
ried  Femmetje  Theunis.  daughter  of  Theunis 
Denyse,  of  Gowanus,  baptized  April  3,  1650,; 
at  New  Amsterdam.  Children  :  Sara,  born 
June  2,  1(178;  Tenuis,  May  id,  [680;  Hans, 
mentioned  below;  Femmetje;  May. 

(  III  )  Hans,  son  of  Michiel  or  Michael  and' 
Femmetje  (Denyse)  Bergen,  was  baptized 
March  11,  [689,  and  died  in  1731.  From  the 
records  of  the  court  of  sessions  of  Kings 
county  in  170S,  it  appears  that  Hans,  with 
others,  was  tried  April  30,  [708,  for  a  riot 
said  to  have  been  committed  at  the  house  of 
Sarah  Knight,  a  i..\.in  keeper  in  Brookland. 
In  1710  he  bought  of  his  father  for  four  hun- 
dred pounds  the  land  at  Brooklyn  ferry, 
which  he  purchased  in  1709  from  Garret  Mid- 
dagh.  Hans  Bergen  and  his  wife  became  com- 
municants of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of 
New  York  in  February,  1713.  He  bought 
various  lands  in  Brooklyn,  and  seems  to  have. 
engaged  in  many  real  estate  transactions.  In 
1715  his  name  appears  on  the  militia  list  of' 
the  town  as  a  private  in  Captain  Remsen's 
company.  In  1717  Hans  Bergen,  baker, 
bought  of  Johannes  Sebering,  baker,  for 
ninety-nine  pounds,  his  interest  or  the  one 
individual  half  of  the  plot  they  purchased  as; 
freeholders.  He  appears  also  to  have  had  an 
interest  in  lands  in  Manhattan.  lie  carried 
on  the  baker\  business  in  Brooklyn  from  17 17 
to  1730,  in  conjunction  with  a  store,  and 
Stabling  for  horses  of  the  residents  of  the 
island,  when  crossing  to  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried Rachel,  daughter  of  Derick  Bensing  or 
Benson.  Children:  Annetje,  baptized  March' 
12,  1710,  in  New  York;  Tiesje,  June  9,  1711: 
Mcigheil,  December  20.  1712;  Femmetje,  July 
2i),  1715;  Derick,  mentioned  below;  Hans. 
July   12,  1721  ;  Tunis,  (  >ctober  15,  1720 

(IV)  Derick.  second  son  of  Hans  and 
Rachel  (Benson)  Bergen,  was  born  February 
28,  171S,  baptized  March  5  of  the  same  vear 
in  New  York,  and  died  November  [9,  1759. 
He  lived  with  his  brother  Hans  in  the  old ! 
stone  house  on  the  paternal  homestead  near! 
the  Bay.  at  what  is  now  Fifty-fifth  street,'; 
Brooklyn,  where  he  died.  He  bought  of  his 
brother  Hans,  July  21.  [756,  a  farm  near  the 
present  Fifteenth  street.  Brooklyn,  where  his! 
family  lived  after  his  death.  After  the  death 
of  his  father,  jointly  with  his  mother,  he  sold; 
a  plot  in  Brooklyn,  about  one  acre,  on  the  road  I 
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pounds.  He  owned  two  Negro  slaves  called 
Will  and  Caesar.  He  married,  in  1749,  De- 
borah, daughter  of  Jacques  (2)  Cortelyou, 
born  November  29,  1720,  died  January  15, 
1808.  Jacques  (2)  Cortelyou  was  born  about 
1697,  died  in  1757,  son  of  Peter  Cortelyou, 
who  was  born  about  1664  at  New  Utrecht, 
Long  Island,  and  died  April  10,  1757.  He 
was  a  surveyor  and  part  owner  of  the  Har- 
lington  Tract  in  Somerset,  New  Jersey.  He 
married  Deborah  DeWitt,  and  Jacques  was 
their  eldest  son.  Peter  Cortelyou  was  a  son 
of  Jacques  (  1 )  Corteljau,  very  prominent  in 
the  early  history  of  New  York.  His  name 
was  sometimes  written  Cortilleau.  He  was 
either  a  Huguenot  or  a  Walloon,  the  latter 
being  indicated  by  the  termination  of  his  name, 
which  he  wrote  Corteljau.  He  was  tutor  of 
the  children  of  Cornelis  Van  Werckhoven  in 
Holland,  and  came  with  his  employer  to  New 
Amsterdam  in  1651-52.  Van  Werckhoven 
was  a  member  of  the  West  India  Company 
and  patroon  of  New  Netherlands,  owning  a 
patent  of  the  Nyack  tract  in  New  Utrecht, 
Long  Island.  In  1654  he  returned  to  Holland 
to  procure  settlers  for  his  tract,  leaving  Cor- 
teljau to  manage  the  property  in  his  absence. 
Soon  after  arrival  in  Holland,  Van  Werck- 
hoven died  and  the  property  on  Long  Island 
ultimately  came  into  possession  of  Corteljau. 
The  latter  was  appointed  surveyor  of  the  col- 
ony by  the  governor  and  council,  January  23, 
1657,  and  in  that  year  he  laid  out  the  village 
of  New  Utrecht,  whose  settlement  began  in 
1661.  He  surveyed  much  of  the  lands  on 
Long,  Staten,  and  Manhattan  islands,  and  in 
other  parts  of  the  colony.  He  laid  out  the 
village  of  Schenectady,  and  lots  and  farms  on 
the  Delaware  river.  He  died  about  1693.  His 
wife,  Neeltje,  was  a  sister  of  Garret  Cornelisse 
Van  Duyn,  and  survived  him  a  short  time,  dy- 
ing before  December,  t  f  ><  j  5 .  Children: 
Jacques,  born  about  1662 ;  Peter,  previously 
mentioned  as  the  father  of  Jacques  (2),  and 
grandfather  of  Deborah,  wife  of  Derick  Ber- 
gen; Cornelis,  died  about  1690:  Helena,  died 
after  1726;  Maria,  wife  of  William  Barkeloo : 
William,  who  probably  died  before  his  father. 
Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bergen:  I.Rachel, 
born  1753,  died  March  10.  1824:  married,  De- 
cember 29,  177 1,  Walter  Barry,  of  Gowanus. 
2.  Jemima,  mentioned  below.  3.  Tiesie,  born 
January  19.  1758:  married,  in  May,  1780, 
Ebenezer  Carson,  an  officer  of  the  revolution ; 


resided  on  a  part  of  the  paternal  farm,  which 
she  owned,  and  died  April  18,  1826.  4.  Naltie, 
born  March  25,  1759,  died  in  her  second  year. 

(  V)  Jemima,  second  daughter  of  Derick  and 
Deborah  (Cortelyou)  Bergen,  was  born  May 
4,  1755.  She  was  married  in  September,  1769, 
to  Joseph  Smith,  a  native  of  New  Jersey. 
Children:  1.  Derick  Bergen,  born  December 
11,  1770,  died  1777.  2.  Samuel,  born  July  13, 
1772,  died  an  old  man,  unmarried.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, born  August  11,  1774:  married  James 
Seaman,  and  died  about  1854.  4.  Derick  Ber- 
gen, born  August  20,  1778,  died  1779.  5.  John, 
born  September  11,  1780;  was  living  in  1863. 
6.  Derick,  born  January  16,  1783  ;  was  mate  of 
a  vessel  sailing  from  New  York  to  San  Do- 
mingo, and  was  poisoned  by  a  Negro  cook  in 
November,  1828.  7.  Jacques,  born  March  17, 
1785,  died  an  old  man  in  Queens  county.  8. 
James,  born  March  12,  1787,  probably  died 
young.  9.  Rachel,  born  December  19,  1789 ; 
married  (first)  Captain  Nicholls,  (second)  a 
Mr.  Ford,  (third)  Calvin  Camfield,  of  New 
Jersey,  and  was  living  in  1863.  10.  Deborah, 
mentioned  below.  11.  Joseph,  born  April  7, 
1795,  died  November  25,  1850,  on  Long 
Island. 

(IV)  Deborah,  third  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Jemima  (Bergen)  Smith,  was  born 
March  26,  1792.  She  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber 11,  1813,  Thomas  G.  Adams,  of  New 
York  (see  Adams  VI)  ;  she  married  (second) 
John  Wyckoff,  of  Gowanus,  and  died  March 
6,1836.  Children  of  first  marriage  :  Thomas, 
Jemima  Adaline,  William,  Elizabeth.  William 
J.;  child  of  second  marriage:  John  Wyckoff, 
born  February  10,   1835. 

(VII)  Jemima  Adaline,  second  child  of 
Thomas  G.  and  Deborah  (  Smith  )  Adams,  was 
born  January  4,  1817,  died  January  19,  1897. 
.She  married.  December  31,  1836,  Joseph  Mo- 
sier  Simonson,  who  was  born  about  1810  in 
New  York  City  or  Brooklyn.  For  more  than 
forty  years  he  was  connected  with  the  Brook- 
lyn post  office,  being  most  of  that  time  assistant 
postmaster  under  various  administrations,  and 
died  in  the  harness,  July  4,  1879.  On  the  day 
of  his  funeral  nearly  all  the  employes  of  the 
post  office  attended  in  a  body.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Washington  Street  Methodist 
Church  of  Brooklyn,  and  was  also  identified 
with  temperance  organizations.  Politically  a 
Republican,  he  did  not  engage  actively  in  pol- 
itical movements,  and  held  no  elective  office. 


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His  efficiency,  faithful  and  upright  character 
are  attested  by  his  long  term  in  the  United 
States  service.  He  was  esteemed  for  his 
manly  qualities  and  widely  mourned  at  his 
death.  Children:  Joseph  Mosier,  born  De- 
cember 1,  1837;  Mary  Louise,  August  29, 
1839;  Thomas  ( ',.  Adams,  February  23,  1841  ; 
Sarah  Louise,  <  (ctober  4,  1842;  Ann  Elizabeth, 
March  [8,  1844;  Adalina,  September  28,  1846; 
Morris,  died  young;  Morris,  born  January  28, 
1850;  Malvinio  Black,  June  27.  1852;  John 
Wyckoff,  June  28,  1855;  Arthur,  mentioned 
below. 

(VIII)  Arthur,  youngest  child  of  Joseph 
Mosier  and  Jemima  Adaline  (Adams)  Simon- 
son,  was  born  January  30,  1857,  in  Brooklyn, 
and  in  early  boyhood  attended  public  school 
No.  15  in  that  city.  He  afterwards  received 
private  tuition,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years 
began  a  course  at  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business 
College,  from  which  he  graduated.  Shortly 
after  he  engaged  with  the  firm  of  Powers  & 
Weightman,  chemists,  in  New  York  City,  with 
whom  he  continued  several  years.  He  then 
joined  the  law  firm  of  F.  &  II.  L.  Morris, 
which  later  became  Morris,  Sentell  &  Main. 
Mr.  Simonson  is  now  associated  with  H.  L. 
Morris,  with  offices  on  Exchange  I  Mace,  and 
specializes  in  real  estate  and  insurance.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  resides  in  New- 
York  City.     He  is  unmarried. 

(The  Adams  Line.) 

It  is  presumable  that  the  ancestor  of  this 
family  was  related  to  that  which  furnished 
two  presidents  to  the  United  States,  and  many 
distinguished  citizens  through  the  succeeding 
generations,  down  to  the  present  time.  This 
assumption  is  based  on  the  fact  that  the  an- 
cestor is  found  at  Braintree,  Massachusetts. 
where  Henry  Adams,  founder  of  what  is 
known  as  the  Presidential  Family,  also  settled 
on  coming  to  America.  At  any  rate,  mam 
worthy  citizens  have  been  born  in  this  family, 
and  it  has  contributed  to  the  development  and 
welfare  of  many  localities. 

( I )  Jeremy  Adams,  ancestor  of  the  branch 
of  the  name  which  is  at  present  under  con- 
sideration, came  from  England  with  the  com- 
pany brought  over  to  America  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Hooker,  and  settled  first  at  Braintree,  Massa- 
chusetts, from  whence  he  soon  removed  to 
Cambridge,  then  called  Newtown,  where 
Jeremy  Adams  appears  as  early  as  1632,  and 
where  he  was  made  a  freeman.  May  f>.   1635, 


and  was  assigned  a  homestead  lot  in  Octobt 
of  the  same  year.  The  following  year,  1631 
he  removed  with  the  company  which  becarr 
the  original  proprietors  of  the  new  settlemei 
to  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  according  t 
Himman  was  a  juror  and  deputy  to  the  gener; 
court  of  Connecticut  in  1638.  On  April 
1638,  he  was  sent  with  Captain  Mason  an 
five  others  to  treat  with  the  Indians  and  trac 
with  them  for  corn,  and  in  the  land  division  c 
1639  he  received  thirty  acres  on  the  highwa; 
now  Elm  street,  and  the  same  year  was  chose 
constable.  March  5,  1644,  t'le  general  cou: 
ordered  Jeremy  Adams  to  appear  before  tt 
next  session  of  that  body  in  order  to  receiv 
censure  for  "adhering  to  Thomas  Asmor,  ei 
couraging  him  to  resist  an  officer,  and  esp< 
1  ially  for  his  passionate  distempered  speeche 
lowd  language  and  unmannerly  caredge  in  tl 
face  of  the  court."  March  13,  1660,  the  san 
court  granted  him  three  hundred  acres  of  uj 
land  and  forty  acres  of  meadow  on  the  roa 
going  to  Monhegin,  and  about  the  same  tin 
established  him  as  keeper  of  the  ordinar 
This  tavern  was  on  the  site  of  the  preset 
Universalist  Church.  January  26,  1660,  I 
bought  the  lot  of  John  Morrice,  and  mortgage 
it  to  the  colony,  and  May  14,  1663,  he  was  a] 
pointed  by  the  general  court  "custome  ma 
ter"  for  Hartford.  March  2,  1664,  being  sixt 
years  old,  he  was  "freed  from  watching  an 
warding."  and  in  1(171  he  was  chosen  one  c 
the  townsmen,  lie  died  August  11,  1683,  lea1 
ing  an  estate  valued  at  £243  5  shillings 
pence,  and  gave  his  property  to  his  grandsoi1 
Zachariah  Sanford,  the  children  of  his  so 
John,  and  the  children  of  his  son-in-law,  N; ' 
thaniel  Willit,  which  last  named  was  also  h 
executor.  The  house  of  his  executor  burne ' 
down  and  with  all  of  Jeremy  Adams'  boo! 
and  papers. 

About  1639.  Jeremy  Adams  married  (first 
Rebecca,  widow  of  Samuel  Greenhill.    She  w; 
possibly  the  second  wife  of  Mr.  Greenhill,  wh 
had  come  from  Staplehurst,  county  Kent,  Enj 
land,   in   the   same   ship   with   Simon   Willan 
To  this  marriage  there  were  six  children : 
John,  mentioned  below.    2.  Ann,  died  in  168;' 
married    Robert    Sanford,    of    Hartford,    an 
had  eight  children.    3.  Hannah,  became  secon  ; 
wife  of  Nathaniel  Willit,  and  was  the  moth< 
of  at  least  two   of  his  children.     4.   Samue 
baptized    November   24,    1645,    probably    die  i 
young.      5.    Hester.     6.    Sarah.     Rebecca,   h  ■ 


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first  wife,  died  1678,  and  Jeremy  Adams  mar- 
ried (second)  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John 
Fletcher,  and  widow  of  Andrew  Warner,  Jr., 
who,  although  not  mentioned  in  his  will,  sur- 
vived him  and  died  in  Middletown,  January 

25,  1715,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years. 
(II)    John,    son    of    Jeremy    and    Rebecca 

(Greenhill)  Adams,  has  left  little  record  be- 
hind him  except  his  children,  the  date  of  his 
death,  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate,  which 
was  made  November  9,  1670,  and  amounted 
to  £4  15  shillings  6  pence.  His  widow  Abi- 
gail married  John  Betts,  of  Wethersfield,  who 
was  probably  a  son  of  John,  son  of  Mary 
Betts,  the  school  dame  of  Hartford.     January 

26,  1680,  John  Betts,  of  Wethersfield,  bought 
of  Jacob  Walker,  of  Stratford,  a  farm  at 
Huntington,  Long  Island,  and  about  this  time 
removed  with  his  wife  and  the  children  of 
John  Adams  to  that  place.  They  were  there 
at  least  in  1684,  when  John  Betts  and  his  wife 
Abigail  conveyed  to  Edward  Higbee,  "for  and 
in  consideration  of  a  marriage  between  the  said 
Higbee  and  Abigail  Adams,  his  stepdaughter," 
a  part  of  the  farm  bought  from  Jacob  Walker. 
Children  of  John  and  Abigail  Adams:  1.  Re- 
becca, born  August,  1658.  2.  Abigail,  born 
February,  1660;  married  Edward  Higbee;  one 
son,  John  Higbee,  married  Alice,  daughter  of 
Edward  Andrews,  and  left  two  children — Abi- 
gail, married  Robert  Leeds,  of  Burlington 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  Edward,  who  settled 
in  what  is  now  Atlantic  county,  New  Jersey, 
and  became  ancestor  of  the  Higbee  family  in 
that  region.  3.  Sarah,  born  March.  1662.  4. 
Jeremiah,  born  August,  1664;  married  and  re- 
moved to  Great  Egg  Harbor,  New  Jersey, 
where  letters  of  administration  were  granted 
to  his  son  Jeremiah,  December  16,  1735.  5. 
John.  Jr.,  born  September,  1666;  removed  to 
New  Jersey;  by  wife  Esther  had  seven  chil- 
dren. 6.  Jonathan,  mentioned  below.  7.  An 
unnamed  child. 

(Ill)  Jonathan,  next  to  the  youngest  child 
of  John  and  Abigail  Adams,  was  born  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  November  6,  1668,  died  in 
1727.  He  went  to  Huntington.  Long  Island, 
with  his  mother  and  stepfather,  and  November 
10,  1689,  Jeremiah  Adams  sold  to  "his  well 
beloved  brother"  Jonathan,  one-half  of  the 
plot  of  land  he  had  bought  of  his  stepfather. 
In  1695  Jonathan  Adams,  "of  Long  Island, 
yeoman,"  purchased  of  Thomas  Budd  about 
two  hundred  and  fiftv  acres  of  land  at  Great 


Egg  Harbor,  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey, 
and  subsequently  made  further  purchases  until 
his  estate  consisted  of  over  twelve  hundred 
acres.  About  the  time  of  his  coming  to  New 
Jersey  he  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  his  descendants  for  several  gen- 
erations clung  to  the  same  faith.  In  1726  he 
was  chosen  as  one  of  the  overseers  of  the 
Friends'  meeting  at  Great  Egg  Harbor.  He 
was  a  man  not  only  of  much  property  but  of 
considerable  influence  and  was  very  highly  re- 
spected. For  a  number  of  years  he  was  one 
of  the  justices  of  the  county  court,  and  in  1701 
was  appointed  special  tax  collector.  His  will, 
dated  May  27,  1719,  proved  June  17,  1727, 
mentions  his  wife  Barbara,  and  children : 
Jonathan,  Jr. ;  John,  mentioned  below  ;  Abigail ; 
Margaret;  Rebecca;  Sarah,  married  John 
Steelman  ;  Mary ;  Nina  ;  Phoebe. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  and  Bar- 
bara Adams,  inherited  most  of  his  estate  from 
his  father,  and  in  1676  had  it  resurveyed  to 
his  three  sons  in  equal  parts.  Besides  the  fact 
that  he  was  a  large  landholder  and  an  earnest 
Quaker,  very  little  record  of  him  has  come 
down  to  us.  The  three  sons  mentioned  in  the 
resurvey  spoken  of  above  were :  1.  John,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Jonathan,  who  lived  in  Egg 
Harbor  township.  Atlantic  county;  was  a  pri- 
vate during  the  revolution ;  by  his  wife  Man- 
had  five  children.  3.  Elijah,  who  served  in  the 
Gloucester  county  militia  during  the  revolu- 
tion; died  intestate  in  1801,  leaving  an  only 
son   Jeremiah. 

(V)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Adams, 
lived  on  the  one-third  of  his  father's  estate 
which  he  had  inherited.  He  served  as  an  en- 
sign in  the  New  Jersey  militia  during  the  war 
of  the  revolution.  His  will,  dated  August  25, 
x797.  proved  April  17,  1798.  does  not  mention 
his  wife,  but  she  survived  him  many  years,  liv- 
ing with  her  son-in-law,  John  Lake,  and  dying 
April  29,  1825.  John  Adams  married  Mary 
Garwood,  the  descendant  of  a  long  line  of 
prominent  Quaker  ancestors.  Children:  1. 
Mary,  born  March  14,  1764.  2.  Hannah,  born 
September  23,  1765  ;  married  Solomon  Man- 
nery.  3.  Daniel,  born  August  23,  1767.  4. 
John,  born  May  25,  1769.  5.  Joshua,  April 
22,  1771.  6.  Daniel,  born  April  1,  1773,  died 
February  17,  1863;  married  (first)  Sarah 
Chamberlain,  (second)  Elizabeth  Bartlett.  7. 
Abigail,  born  January  11,  1775;  married  John 
Lake.      8.    Jesse,    born    April    26,    1777.      9. 


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Thomas  G.,  mentioned  below.  10.  Margaret, 
born  January  7,  1783;  married  Amariah  Lake. 
11.  William,  born  November  24,  1787.  12. 
Bevina,  born  May  18,  1789. 

(VI)  Thomas  <  1.,  sixth  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Mary  (Garwood)  Adams,  was  born  April 
17,  1780.  died  October  10,  1820.  He  married, 
November  11.  1813,  Deborah  Smith,  born 
March  26,  17112.  Children:  Thomas,  born 
November  21,  1814;  Jemima  Adaline,  men- 
tioned below;  Elizabeth,  November  10,  1818; 
William  I.,  March  4.  1820,  died  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  years. 

(Ylli  Jemima  Adaline.  senior  daughter  of 
Thomas  (1.  and  Deborah  (  Smith)  Adams,  was 
horn  January  4.  1817,  and  became  the  wife  of 
Joseph  Mosier  Simonson  (see  Bergen  YII  1. 


The  hereditary  surname  Wells  is 
WELLS     said  by  one  authority  to  be  from 

Wellan,  an  old  form  of  expres- 
sion which  means  to  spring  up  as  a  fountain 
•  if  water.  It  is  found  as  a  place  name  in  Eng- 
land, and  aKo  has  a  Norman  stem  in  Val,  Vals, 
Vaux,  and  De  Vollibus.  Three  sons  of  Har- 
old De  Vaux.  a  Norman  baron,  went  over  to 
England  in  11 20  from  France  and  settled  in 
Cumberland.  One  of  these  was  named  Robert, 
and  his  grandson,  Adam  Vaux,  about  1  [94, 
holding  the  manor  of  Welles,  took  the  name  of 
De  Wells.  Bishop  Hugo  De  Welles  became 
one  of  the  most  important  men  in  England. 
Advanced  to  the  see  of  Lincoln  as  archdeacon 
and  lord  chancellor  of  the  realm,  his  power 
became  very  great.  He  was  chief  of  the  ba- 
ons,  and  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  from 
King  John  at  Runnymede,  in  1215,  the  Magna 
Charta,  since  regarded  by  historians  as  a  bul- 
wark and  beginning  of  liberty  to  the  English 
people,  prepared  by  his  own  hand.  The  early 
records  of  New  England  colonies  contain  men- 
tion of  many  persons  of  this  name,  who  were 
settled  in  Boston,  Lynn,  Hatfield,  Haddam, 
Ipswich,  New  London,  and  Hartford.  From 
the  early  progenitor  descended  a  manly  race, 
and  many  of  the  name  made  records  in  the 
revolution.  Nine  who  spelled  their  names 
Welles  were  patriot  soldiers  in  the  revolution 
in  Massachusetts  regiments,  and  one  hundred 
and  sixty  whose  name  is  spelled  Wells.  In 
the  Connecticut  organizations  were  five  of  the 
Welles  branch,  and  forty-seven  of  the  Wells 
branch  of  the  family,  assuming  that  they  were 
branches  of  the  same  stem.     Other  spellings 


of  the  name  in  revolutionary  records  are: 
Wailles,  Wails,  Wealls,  Weels,  Well,  Walles, 
Wels,  Willa,  and  Wolle.  Prominent  among  the 
men  who  used  the  form  of  Welles,  was  Gover- 
nor Thomas  Welles,  a  colonist  of  Connecticut; 
Gideon,  once  secretary  of  the  navy ;  and  Ed- 
ward R.,  an  American  bishop.  Among  those 
who  used  the  simpler  spelling  of  the  name 
(Wells)  are:  Henry  T.,  a  painter;  H.  G., 
a  novelist;  and  Horace  and  John  D,  men  of 
rank  in  medicine.  A  very  large  number  of  the 
name  of  Wells  and  Welles  in  North  America 
are  descended  from  Governor  Thomas  Welles. 
Of  this  prominent  settler  Savage  says:  "It  is 
quite  uncertain  when  he  came  from  England, 
that  satisfactorily  known  is  that  he  brought 
three  sons  and  three  daughters;  equally  un- 
certain is  the  name  of  his  wife,  though  we  can 
hardly  doubt  whether  he  brought  one;  and 
stranger  still  is  the  uncertainty  of  his  prior 
residence  in  Massachusetts.  He  had  good 
proportions  of  the  patents  from  Swampscott 
and  Dover,  which  he  sold,  August  1648,  tc 
Christopher  Lawson.  We  may  then  safel) 
conclude  that  a  person  of  his  education  and 
good  estate  had  not  come  over  the  water  before 
1636,  and  that  he  stayed  so  short  a  time  at 
Boston,  or  Cambridge,  as  to  leave  no  trace  oi 
himself  at  either,  and  he  was  established  at 
Hartford  before  Governor  Haynes  left  Cam- 
bridge. There  is  indeed  a  very  precise  tradi- 
tion of  his  coming  with  his  father  Nathaniel 
in  the  fleet  with  Higginson,  1629,  to  Salem 
but  this  is  merely  ridiculous."  "He  came  tc 
Boston  or  vicinity,  probably  about  1636;  thei 
perhaps  to  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  thence  163; 
or  earlier  to  Hartford,  thence  1643  to  Weth 
ersfield,"  says  Henry  R.  Styles  in  his  excellen: 
history  of  ancient  Wethersfield,  Connecticut. 

I  I  )  John  T.  Wells  was  born  in  1826,  it 
Montreal,  Canada,  and  died  at  High  Falls 
New  York,  in  1877.  His  early  life  was  spen 
in  Canada,  where  he  engaged  in  rafting  on  th< 
St.  Lawrence  river.  A  few  years  later  hi 
came  to  New  York  state  and  settled  at  Ston< 
Ridge,  Ulster  county,  where  he  engaged  in  th< 
custom  boot  and  shoe  business.  He  was  of  ; 
quiet  disposition  and  was  greatly  devoted  tc 
his  home  life,  though  taking  a  deep  interes 
in  all  public  movements.  He  was  quite  likeh 
a  descendants  of  the  Governor  Thomas  Welles 
mentioned  above,  though  diligent  research  ha: 
not  revealed  the  links  binding  his  generatioi 
to  earlier  ones.     He  was  a  member  of  the  In 


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dependent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  was  a 
sexton  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  at 
Stone  Ridge  for  a  number  of  years.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  are  buried  at  Stone  Ridge,  New 
York.  He  married  Catherine,  born  1836,  died 
1900,  daughter  of  John  Snyder,  of  Rochester, 
Ulster  county,  New  York  (see  Snyder). 
Children  :  Mary  J.,  married  L.  Snyder ;  John  ; 
Herman  S.,  mentioned  below;  and  William  D. 
(  II )  Herman  S.,  son  of  John  T.  and  Cath- 
erine (Snyder)  Wells,  was  born  at  Stone 
Ridge,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  April  23, 
1867.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  schools 
and  early  in  life  worked  on  the  D.  and  H. 
canal.  He  continued  in  this  occupation  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  then  commenced  to 
learn  telegraphy,  accepting  a  position  as  tele- 
graph operator  at  High  Falls  for  the  D.  and  H. 
Canal  Company.  Two  years  later  he  accepted 
.  a  similar  position  at  Ellenville,  where  for 
twenty-six  years  he  was  manager  of  the  West- 
ern Union  Telegraph  Company's  interest.  In 
1902  he  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the 
Deleware  River  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Company  and  was  made  president.  This  con- 
tinued until  July,  iqii,  when  it  was  merged 
into  the  New  York  Telephone  Company.  Mr. 
Wells  is  at  present  (1913)  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Ryan  &  Wells,  granite  and  marble 
works,  whose  business  extends  throughout  the 
middle  and  eastern  states.  Mr.  Wells  repre- 
sented the  town  of  Wawarsing  in  Ulster 
county  on  the  board  of  supervisors  as  a  Re- 
publican from  1910  to  1911.  He  was  trustee 
of  the  village  of  Ellenville  for  twelve  years, 
and  is  president  of  the  Delaware  River  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph  Company.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  Scoresby  Hose  and  Hook 
and  Ladder  Company  of  the  Ellenville  Fire 
Department  for  the  past  twenty  years'  con- 
tinuous service,  and  is  an  exempt  fireman ; 
is  a  member  of  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No.  582, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  Lodge,  of  Ellenville.  In  religion  he 
is  an  attendant  at  the  Methodist  places  of 
worship.  He  married  Cora  B.  Schoonmaker; 
they  have  no  children. 

(The  Snyder  Line.) 
The  Snyder  family  is  German  in  origin,  and 
the  name  is  a  corruption  of  the  German  form 
"Schneider,"  which  has  the  meaning  of  Taylor. 
Several  distinct  families  of  the  name  settled 
in  this  country  during  the  period  of  heavy 
German  immigration  in  the  early  part  of  the 


eighteenth  century.  Jacob  Schneider,  or  Sny- 
der, came  to  Ulster  county  from  Dutchess 
county,  New  York,  and  settled  in  what  is  now 
known  as  the  Cottekill,  where  he  took  up  a 
tract  of  land.  His  children  were  Christopher, 
Andrew,  Jacob,  and  Henry. 

Christopher,  son  of  Jacob  Snyder,  was  born 
in  Dutchess  county,  February  24,  1752,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Ulster  county.  He 
married,  November  3,  1785,  Deborah  Low, 
having  one  child,  Jacob  Low,  who  was  born, 
September  9,  1788. 

Jacob,  son  of  Christopher  Snyder,  lived  to 
middle  age.  and  died  December  23,  1834,  being 
buried  in  Rosendale  cemetery.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  the  district  in 
which  he  lived,  and  under  the  tuition  of  his 
uncle  Andrew,  who  was  a  man  of  considerable 
erudition,  he  became  a  man  of  excellent  at- 
tainments, apart  from  the  work  of  his  life 
in  the  agricultural  field.  His  principal  occu- 
pation was  farming  and  his  father  and  himself 
were  extensive  landowners,  all  the  land  from 
Keator's  Corners  to  near  High  Falls  being 
their  property.  Jacob  also  owned  and  oper- 
ated a  flour  mill,  which  was  one  of  the  first 
in  that  locality.  He  was  successful  in  all  his 
business  enterprises  and  was  a  man  highly 
respected  in  the  community.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  prosperous  and  progressive  citizens 
in  his  township  and  a  leading  man  in  all  its 
affairs.  In  religion  he  belonged  to  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  of  Marbletown,  now  Stone 
Ridge,  which  church  was  established  before  the 
revolutionary  war,  being  a  very  active  worker 
111  this  body  and  one  of  its  chief  supporters.  lie 
bore  a  high  character  for  integrity,  industry. 
and  ability.  He  was  liberal  in  his  donations 
to  worthy  objects  of  every  kind.  His  children 
were  Benjamin,  Deborah,  Ann  Eliza,  Christo- 
pher, John,  Sarah  and  Peter.  John  was  the 
father  of  Catherine  Snvder,  who  married  Tohn 
T.  Wells. 


The  surname  Wilklow  is  an 
WILKLOW  unusual  one,  and  an  investi- 
gation of  the  lists  of  names 
current  in  England,  Ireland,  Scotland,  France, 
Germany,  and  Holland,  does  not  reveal  it  in 
this  form  or  in  any  form  that  can  be  claimed 
as  very  nearly  analogous  to  it.  The  name  has 
been  described  as  Norman,  and  also  as  Anglo- 
Saxon,  and  even  as  Dutch  in  origin.  There  is 
no  evidence  in  the  ordinary  records  to  show 


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that  it  is  any  of  these.  Burke's  "General  Ar- 
mory" does  not  contain  it.  One  authority  as- 
serts that  it  is  a  corruption  of  the  name  of 
Wicklow,  which  is  applied  to  one  of  the  coun- 
ties  of  Ireland.  On  the  supposition  that  the 
two  names  have  a  common  origin  an  extract 
from  O'Hart's  "Pedigrees"  (Vol.  I.  p.  840) 
may  lie  given:  "Wicklow"  says  that  author- 
ity, "was  formed  into  a  county  in  the  reign 
of  King  James  (lie  First;  its  name  being  de- 
rived from  the  town  of  Wicklow,  which  it  is 
said  was  called  by  the  Danes  Wykinlow  or 
Wykinlough,  signifying  the  Harbor  of  Ships, 
and  it  was  called  1:\  the  Irish  (m  Gielic)  Cil- 
mantan.  According  to  O'Flaherty  (the  cele- 
brated author  of  'Ogygia')  the  name 
of  Wicklow  was  derived  from  the  Irish 
Buidhe  ('loch,  signifying  the  yellow  stone 
or  rock;  and  probably  so-called  from 
the  yellow  color  of  its  granite  rocks. 
Wicklow  was  in  ancient  times  covered 
with  extensive  forests  and  the  oak  woods  of 
Shillelagh,  on  the  borders  of  Wicklow  and 
Wexford,  were  celebrated  in  former  times. 
The  gold  mines  of  Wicklow.  celebrated  in  his- 
lorv,  were  situated  in  the  mountains  of  Crog- 
han  Kinselagh.  near  Arklow,  and  pieces  of 
solid  golden  ore  of  various  kinds  were  found 
in  the  rivulets;  one  of  which  pieces  was 
twenty-three  ounces  in  weight."  In  1'.  W. 
foyce's  work  on  "Irish  Names  of  Places"  a 
great  deal  of  other  information  is  given  regard- 
ing the  name  of  Wicklow,  which  appears  to 
have  had  many  different  forms. 

(  I  1  Daniel  Wilklow  was  born  in  Lloyd 
township,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  and  died 
at  New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  in  1850.  He  is 
the  first  member  of  the  family,  who  can  be 
traced,  and  it  is  thus  far  impossible  to  decide 
by  research  what  number  of  generations  he 
had  behind  him  in  this  country.  The  evi- 
dence points  to  the  fact  that  his  father  was  the 
first  of  the  name  to  settle  in  this  country, 
where  he  was  probably  a  cultivator  of  the  soil. 
Daniel  was  brought  up  like  a  majority  of  the 
boys  of  that  day,  with  plenty  of  hard  work, 
and  with  only  modest  advantages  in  the  way 
of  education.  On  arriving  at  years  of  matur- 
ity he  married,  and  after  his  marriage  located 
on  a  farm  at  Xew  Paltz,  which  he  developed 
into  an  excellent  property,  where  lie  brought 
up  a  tine  family  of  boys  and  girls.  He  married 
a  Miss  Palmateer,  whose  father  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolutionary  war  and  after  its  close  set- 


tled on  the  banks  of  the  Hudson,  in  Ulster 
county,  where  he  followed  agriculture  and 
reared  a  large  family.  Children  of  Daniel 
Wicklow:  John  D.,  mentioned  below;  Wil- 
liam ;  Maria  ;  Solomon  ;  David  ;  Eliza  ;  Luther: 
Hannah,  who  married  Daniel  Rider ;  Elijah 
and   Philip. 

(  II  )    John    D.,    eldest    son    of    Daniel    and 

1  Palmateer)    Wilklow,   was   born   in 

Lloyd  township,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  ini 
December,  1801,  died  in  March,  1881,  at  Mar- 
bletown,  near  Kripple  Bush,  Ulster  county 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  district,  and  being  a  young  mar 
of  considerable  natural  ability  he  supplementec 
the  regular  course  of  study  with  a  wide  rangt 
of  reading  and  observation,  thus  acquiring  ; 
sound  judgment  and  a  varied  store  of  knowl- 
edge on  many  subjects,  which  served  him  wel 
through  life.  He  had  learned  the  elements  0: 
agriculture  by  assisting  his  father  in  the  de 
velopment  of  his  property,  and  naturally  tool' 
up  farming  as  an  occupation.  He  lived  for  ; 
time  at  New  Paltz  ami  later  at  Rochester 
where  he  took  up  a  farm  owned  by  one  P.  H, 
Hornbcck.  In  1840  he  bought  a  farm  in  Mar 
bletown,  near  Kripple  Bush,  where  he  spen 
the  rest  of  his  life.  The  farm  consisted  of  oni 
hundred  and  thirty  acres  and  was  one  of  th< 
finest  in  that  section  of  the  state.  Mr.  Wilk 
low  was  very  successful  as  an  agriculturist 
and  his  exceptional  powers  of  judgment  an< 
high  moral  character,  combined  with  natura 
abilities,  gave  him  considerable  influence  it 
the  community  of  which  he  was  a  member 
He  took  a  very  considerable  interest  in  th 
public  affairs  of  the  day,  whether  they  affectei 
the  interests  of  nation,  state  or  town.  In  hi 
early  days  he  was  inclined  to  give  his  suppor 
to  tiie  Whig  interest,  and  later  he  was  a  Re 
publican,  following  the  lead  and  principles  o 
that  party  to  the  close  of  his  life.  Like  mos 
members  of  his  family  he  was  a  member  o 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  marrie< 
Dorcas  Dow,  of  Milton,  who  died  in  187c 
They  had  a  family  of  ten  children,  all  of  whor 
lived  to  an  adult  age,  a  circumstance  that  be 
tokened  the  strength  of  the  stock  from  whic 
they  sprang,  as  well  as  the  healthful  condi 
tions  in  which  they  lived.  Children:  Isaai 
who  married  ami  resided  at  Kripple  Bush 
Theodore,  mentioned  below;  Sarah,  who  re 
mained  single ;  Jane,  who  married  Gerrey  Te 
Hagen ;    Philip,    who   married   and   resided   2 


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Ellenville ;  Lewis,  who  resided  at  Ellenville ; 
Denton,  unmarried,  resided  at  Kripple  Bush ; 
Almira,  married  Alexander  Schoonmaker; 
Margaret,  lived  at  High  Falls ;  Mary  Ann. 

(Ill)  Theodore,  son  of  John  D.  and  Dorcas 
(Dow)  Wilklow,  was  born  at  New  Paltz,  Ul- 
ster county,  New  York,  August  24,  1836.  Mr. 
Wilklow  was  the  founder  of  the  soft  wood 
industry,  and  inventor  of  it,  his  business  in  it 
extending  in  course  of  time  to  Berlin,  Paris, 
London,  and  all  over  the  world.  He  attended. 
in  youth,  the  common  schools  of  Rochester 
and  Marbletown  with  one  winter  term  at  the 
Ellenville  Academy.  Of  all  the  opportunities 
which  these  educational  advantages  presented 
he  made  good  use  and  was  always  a  great 
reader,  keeping  himself  well  informed  on  cur- 
rent topics.  At  an  early  age  he  worked  at 
farming,  and  later  became  a  clerk  for  S.  Has- 
brouck  for  four  dollars  a  month.  Following 
that  he  spent  a  year  in  the  employ  of  Jacob  D. 
Van  De  Mark,  and  finally  in  the  year  1856 
went  into  business  for  himself  at  Kripple 
Bush.  At  the  end  of  three  years  he  took  a 
partner  and  this  partnership  continued  for  six 
years,  until  1867,  when  he  moved  to  Phillips- 
port,  in  Sullivan  county,  and  began  the  manu- 
facture of  hoops.  After  a  period  of  four 
years,  however,  he  returned  to  Kripple  Bush, 
and  engaged  again  in  merchandising  until  at 
the  end  of  some  years  he  found  himself  deeply 
involved.  After  much  consideration  Mr.  Wilk- 
low then  returned  to  hoop  manufacturing, 
this  time,  out  of  the  fund  of  his  mature  ex- 
perience and  knowledge  of  the  industry,  in- 
troducing an  entirely  new  departure  by  em- 
ploying soft  wood  as  a  material.  His  success 
in  the  new  line  was  almost  instantaneous,  and 
continued  in  such  steady  growth  that  his  first 
order  of  ten  thousand  soon  developed  into 
millions  annually.  His  trade  soon  extended 
all  over  the  west,  and  in  1887  Mr.  Wilklow 
transferred  his  establishment  to  Ellenville, 
making  his  business  the  center  of  the  hoop 
trade  in  that  part  of  the  country,  where  he 
is  generally  recognized  as  the  father  of  the 
industry.  The  business  is  now  worldwide, 
having  developed  from  a  sample  of  five  thou- 
sand soft  wood  hoops,  in  1875,  to  an  output 
of  sevenfv-five  million  in  100S.  Mr.  Wilk- 
low is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  of  progres- 
sive and  liberal  principles;  for  fifty  years  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  also  of  the  Kniehts  of 


Pythias.  In  1859  he  joined  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church,  and  has  held  the  office  of 
deacon  at  Stone  Ridge  and  Ellenville  for  many 
years.  He  takes  an  active  and  generous  in- 
terest in  many  enterprises  in  the  community, 
and  though  repeatedly  urged  to  accept  public 
offices  of  various  kinds  he  has  declined.  He 
married  (first)  Hannah  M.,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel Schoonmaker,  her  death  taking  place  in 
1865;  married  (second)  in  1868,  Jane  North. 
Child  by  first  marriage :  Ledrira,  who  mar- 
ried Rufus  Wood.  Children  by  second  mar- 
riage :  Mary  A. ;  George  F.,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Eva ;  Anna  and  Charles. 

(IV)  Dr.  George  F.  Wilklow,  son  of  Theo- 
dore and  Jane  ( North)  Wilklow,  was  born 
at  Stone  Ridge,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
November  7,  1870.  He  was  educated  at  El- 
lenville Academy  and  Cazenovia  Seminary, 
Cazenovia,  New  York.  At  the  close  of  his 
preliminary  education  he  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine,  attending  for  a  period  of  two 
years  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, New  York  City.  Then  he  spent  two 
years  at  Bellevtne  Hospital,  being  finally  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  the  year  1897.  Dr.  Wilk- 
low served  in  the  Spanish-American  war  as 
assistant  surgeon,  with  the  rank  of  first  lieu- 
tenant, in  the  Philippines  and  China;  is  now 
first  lieutenant.  Medical  Reserve  Corps, 
United  States  Army.  At  the  close  of  the  war 
he  served  also  one  year  in  the  Manhattan  Hos- 
pital, New  York  City;  then  settled  in  Wurts- 
boro,  New  York,  where  he  practiced  his  pro- 
fession till  1910,  in  which  year  he  removed 
to  Ellenville,  where  he  now  (1913)  resides 
and  practices.  He  belongs  to  the  Wawarsing 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and 
among  other  societies  is  a  member  of  the  State 
and  Ulster  County  Medical  associations.  Dr. 
Wilklow  married   Blanche   Fairbanks. 


It  is  more  or  less  a  matter  of  pride 
GRAY     for   one   to   be   able  to   look   back 

over  a  known  ancestral  line  of  a 
thousand  years — a  line  that  can  be  traced  to 
the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror.  The 
name  Gray  is  of  great  antiquity  and  of  local 
origin.  The  orthography,  however,  prior  to 
the  tenth  century,  was  De  Gray,  but  the  prefix 
has  been  generally  dropped  excepting  in  some 
of  the  titled  families  of  England  and  Ireland. 
There  are  some  members  of  this  large  family 
in  Canada  who  can  trace  an  unbroken  lineage 


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back  to  King  William,  who  granted  a  crest 
which  is  still  maintained  in  England,  and  the 
reception  of  valuable  testimonials  from  that 
king  for  distinguished  services  rendered  at 
the  battle  of  Hastings.  "Burke's  Peerage" 
gives  information  of  members  of  this  family 
who  received  high  honors  from  Richard  I. 
in  the  twelfth  century.  The  marriage  of 
Henry  Gray,  the  Duke  of  Suffolk,  with  Mary, 
the  daughter  of  Henry  VII.,  brought  the  fam- 
ily near  the  throne,  [lis  unreasonable  strug- 
gle, however,  to  have  their  daughter,  Lady 
Jane  Gray,  crowned  as  queen  brought  that  es- 
timable young  woman  t<>  a  sad  end.  But  Mr. 
Gray  deems  the  attainments  of  the  men  of 
today  of  more  account  than  the  merits  (if 
remote  ancestors. 

(I)  John  Gray,  the  founder  of  this  family, 
lived  in  Yarmouth,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
died  in  1674.  He  is  said  to  have  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  William  Lumpkin,  one 
of  the  founders  and  prominent  citizens  of 
Yarmouth.  Children:  Benjamin,  born  De- 
cember 7,  1648;  William,  born  October  5, 
(650;  Mary,  married,  |une  to,  [680,  Benja- 
min Ryder;  Edward,  of  whom  further;  John, 
died  March  31,  1732,  married  Susannah  Clark; 
( rideon. 

(II)  Edward,  sun  of  John  ami  Hannah 
(  Lumpkin)  Gray,  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  and 
died  there.  He  married,  in  Plymouth,  July 
1(1.  [684,  Melatiah,  daughter  of  George  Lewis, 
of  Brewster.  Children:  Priscilla,  bom  Oc- 
tober [8,  1686;  Gideon,  horn  September  6, 
r688;  John,  born  July  26,  1691,  married  Han- 
nah -  — ;  Melatiah,  born  June  6,  [694; 
Mercy,  born  April  [3,  [696;  Edward,  of  whom 
further. 

(  HI )  Edward  (  2  ),  son  of  Edward  (  1  )  and 
Melatiah  (Lewis)  Gray,  was  born  in  Yar- 
mouth, and  died  in  Harwich.  Massachusetts. 
He  married.  July  3,  1727.  Hannah  Godfrey. 
Children:  Mary,  baptized  October  18,  [728; 
Mary,  baptized  April  [3,  [735;  Priscilla,  bap- 
tized April  13.  1735;  Richard,  baptized  .April 
T3.  iT.'tS'-  Hannah,  baptized  November  9,  1735; 
Benoni,  baptized  (  Ictober  1(1,  1737.  married 
Mary  Rockwell;  Edward  (31,  baptized  March 
20,  1741;  John;  Godfrey,  of  whom  further; 
(  (liver 

(JY>  Godfrey,  son  of  Edward  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Godfrey)  Gray,  was  born  in  Har- 
wich or  Brewster,  Massachusetts,  about  1745, 
and  died  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  in  1800. 


His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children,  be- 
sides two  that  died  young:  William;  Martin 
of   whom   further;  Morgan;  Samuel. 

(  V )  Martin,  son  of  Godfrey  Gray,  wa: 
born  September  20,  1784,  died  in  Katsbaan 
Ulster  county,  New  York,  January  10,  1871 
and  is  buried  in  the  Blue  Mountain  Cemetery 
near  Saugerties.  lie  lived  for  a  time  in  Sara 
toga  county,  Xew  York,  and  removed  fron 
there  to  ( ireene  county.  New  York,  finally  set 
tling  on  a  farm  near  Saugerties,  Ulster  county 
New  York,  which  he  cultivated  until  his  death 
He  married  Elsie  Gum,  born  March  28,  1787 
died  October  28,  [856.  Children:  John 
Jonas;  Morgan,  of  whom  further;  Christina 
Jeannette,  born  March  5,  1821,  died  Februar 
16,   1893. 

(  VI  )     Morgan,    son    of    Martin    and    Elsi 
(Clum)   Gray,  was  born  in  Clermont,  Colum 
liia  county.  New  York,  January  30,  1824,  am 
died  at   Katsbaan.  Ulster  county.  New  YorI 
July  20,   1899.     He  received  his  early  educa 
tion  in  the  public  schools,  and  then  became 
farmer,  also  a  butcher  and  drover  for  man 
years  at   Samsonville,  and  finally  purchased 
farm  of  two  hundred  acres  near  Samsonville 
which   he  cultivated   for  about  eighteen  year: 
then   moved  to  Katsbaan,  where  he  bought 
farm,  and  where  his  death  occurred.     He  wa 
a  prominent  man  in  his  county,  was  a  larg: 
quarryman  and  had  several  blue   stone  quai 
lies ;    was   a   deacon   in   the   Dutch    Re  forme 
church.       He    married,     February    26,     185; 
Rachel  Caroline  Freleigh,  born  April  18,  182; 
died  July  24,  T883.    Children,  all  born  in  San 
sonville:      Samuel    Martin,  of  whom   furthei 
Tohn   Henry,  horn  July   13,   1853;  Eliza  Can 
line,   born   October    in.    1854;    Mary    Adelin 
bom  May  11,   1857;  Abby  Celestia,  born  At 
gust  it).  185');  Charles  Freleigh,  born   lune 
r86i  :  George  Silver,  born  February  26,  186! : 
died  April  (i,  1870. 

(VII)   Samuel  Martin    sou  of  Morgan  an 
Rachel  Caroline  ( Freleigh  )  Gray,  was  born  : 
Quarryville,    Ulster   county.    New   York,   D< 
cember    15,   185 1.     He  is  now  living:  in  Kinft 
ston,  I'Kter  county.  New  York.     He  receivt 
his    early    education    in    the    public    schools   (d 
Olive    township,   and    in    Katsbaan,   and   th( 
worked  on  his  father's  farm,  and  for  two  yea 
was  engaged  as  a  butter  buyer  in  Greene  ar 
LTlster   counties.      In    187/i  opened   a   groce; ; 
store  in  Quarryville,  which  he  soon  after  e 
larsred    to   a    general    merchandise    store,    ar 


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which  he  conducted  for  nine  years,  meanwhile, 
in  1883,  establishing  also  a  wholesale  flour, 
feed,  grain  and  grocery  business  in  Sauger- 
ties,'New  York.  In  1886  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  in  Quarryville  to  his  brother,  John 
Gray,  and  removed  to  Saugerties,  where  he 
gave  his  attention  to  his  wholesale  grain  busi- 
ness, which  he  developed  to  the  largest  of  its 
kind  in  Ulster  county.  In  1909  he  disposed  of 
his  interests  in  Saugerties  and  removed  to 
Kingston,  where  he  is  now  living.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  in  Sauger- 
ties twelve  years,  and  was  at  one  time  presi- 
dent of  the  Saugerties  Sewer  Commission ; 
also  president  of  the  Saugerties  Club  six  years, 
and  is  now  one  of  the  directors  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Saugerties.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  in  Kingston. 

He  married,  June  3,  1875.  Isabella,  born  in 
Saugerties,  New  York,  May  18,  1852,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  J.  and  Hannah  Christina  (Ack- 
ler)  HommelL  She  is  a  descendant  of  Peter 
Hommell,  who  served  in  the  Ulster  county 
(New  York)  militia,  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gray  have  one  child: 
Ethel  Hommell  Gray. 


This  family  is  of  ancient  Eng- 
DIMMICK     lish  ancestry,   ante-dating  the 

Conquest.  The  name  is  de- 
rived from  the  Anglo-Saxon  word  denoting  an 
oak  tree,  and  is  written  in  numerous  forms, 
the  most  common  being:  Dymok,  Dymock, 
Dymocke,  Dymoke,  Dimoc,  Dimmock,  Dim- 
mick  and  Dimock.  The  usual  spelling  of  the 
name  in  England  is  Dymoke,  and  in  America 
Dimmick  and  Dimock.  The  original  home  of 
the  family  in  England  was  the  manor  of  Dim- 
mock,  in  Gloucestershire.  Very  little  is  known 
of  the  early  history  of  the  family  in  that  local- 
ity. Early  in  1500  members  of  the  family  re- 
moved to  Scrivelsby.  The  first  record  of  the 
family  in  this  locality  was  the  marriage  record 
in  1567  of  Miss  Frances  Dymoke,  daughter  of 
Sir  Edward  Dymoke,  to  Mr.  Thomas  Winder- 
banke,  appearing  on  the  first  page  of  the  "Old 
Scrivelsby  Register."'  The  first  of  the  family 
to  locate  in  Scrivelsby  was  Sir  John  Dymoke, 
a  gallant  officer  in  the  service  of  the  king.  He 
was  appointed  "Champion"  at  the  coronation 
of  Richard  II.,  and  from  that  date  until  the 
coronation  of  George  IV.,  in  1820,  members 
of  the  Dymoke   family  filled  this  office.     Sir 


John  Dymoke  married  Lady  Margaret  Lud- 
low, great-granddaughter  of  Sir  Philip  Mar- 
mion,  prominent  in  the  history  and  legends  of 
England.  Sir  Thomas  Dymoke  succeeded  his 
father,  Sir  John  Dymoke,  to  the  estate  at 
Scrivelsby.  Then  followed  a  long  list  of  Dy- 
mokes,  who  were  prominent  in  the  history  of 
England.  They  were  loyal  to  the  king,  as 
shown  in  their  holding  the  office  of  "Cham- 
pion." The  last  of  the  family  to  possess  the 
estate  in  Scrivelsby  was  Sir  Henry  Lionel  Dy- 
moke, who  died  without  heirs  in  1883,  being 
succeeded  by  the  Tetford  branch  of  the  family. 
The  family  motto.  Pro  rcge  dimicu,  was  as- 
sumed soon  after  the  family  located  in  Scriv- 
elsby. The  quartering  of  the  Dymoke  es- 
cutcheon is  as  follows:  1.  Dymoke.  Sable 
two  lions  passant  argent,  crowned  or.  2.  Lud- 
low. Azure,  three  lions  passant  guardant  ar- 
gent. 3.  Marmion.  Vair,  on  a  fesse  gules 
frette  or.  4.  Kilpeck.  Sable,  a  sword  point 
downwards  argent,  hilt  and  pommel  or.  5. 
Hebden.  Ermine,  five  fusils  in  fesse  gules. 
6.  Rye.  Gules  on  a  bend  argent,  three  ears  of 
rye  sable.  7.  Welles.  Or,  a  lion  rampant 
queue  fourche  sable.  8.  Watertown.  Barry 
of  six  ermine  and  gules,  three  crescents  sable 
9.  Engaine.  ( rules,  a  fesse  dancette  between 
six  cross  crosslets  or.  10.  Sparrow.  Argent, 
six  sparrows  sable,  three  two  and  one  or,  a 
chief  indented  gules,  two  swords  in  saltire, 
points  upward  argent,  hilts  and  pommels  or, 
between  two  lions'  heads  erased  of  the  last.  1 1. 
Talboys.  Argent,  a  saltire  gules,  on  a  chief  of 
the  second  three  escallops  of  the  field.  12. 
Barraden.  Gules,  on  a  bend  argent  three  cin- 
quefoils  sable.  13.  Fitzwith.  Gules,  two  bend- 
lets  or.  14.  Umfraville.  Gules,  a  cinquefoil 
between  eight  cross  crosslets  or.  15.  Kyme. 
Gules,  a  chevron  between  nine  cross  crosslets 
or. 

(I)  The  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
America  was  Thomas  Dimock.  His  connec- 
tion with  the  Scrivelsby  family  is  not  definitely 
known,  but  the  tradition  in  the  family  in 
America  holds  that  he  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  Sir  John  Dymoke,  mentioned  above.  There 
is  a  tradition  in  England  that  one  of  the 
younger  sons  of  the  family  married  into  a 
Puritan  family,  and  that  he,  or  his  son,  dis- 
appeared from  England  at  the  end  of  the  six- 
teenth century  and  became  estranged  from  his 
relatives  in  the  mother  country.  It  is  known 
that   much   mystery   surrounded   Thomas   Di- 


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mock,  the  immigrant,  and  it  is  reasonable  to 
assume  that  he  kept  his  relationship  with  the 
family  in  England  a  secret.  Careful  research 
has  been  made  to  disclose  the  identity  of  the 
progenitor  of  the  family  in  America.  Sir  Ed- 
ward Dymoke,  Champion  to  Edward  VI.,  mar- 
ried Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Talbois. 
Arthur,  the  youngest  son  of  Sir  Edward,  had 
two  suns:  John,  known  as  the  "son  and  heir," 
and  Edward,  who  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
father  of  Thomas  Dimock,  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America. 

Thomas  Dimock  first  located  in  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  in  1635,  serving  in  that  year 
as  selectman.  lie  was  admitted  a  freeman. 
May  25,  1636.  In  1638  he  removed  to  Hing- 
ham,  and  in  1639  to  Scituate,  settling  first  in 
Barnstable,  on  Cape  Cod,  where  he  had  re- 
ceived a  large  grant  of  land.  He  was  the  lead- 
ing citizen  of  the  new  town  and  identified  with 
all  its  various  activities.  In  March,  1639,  he 
was  appointed  "to  exercise  Barnstable  men  in 
their  arms."  lie  was  admitted  a  freeman  of 
the  colony,  December  3,  1630.  He  served  as 
deputy  to  the  Plymouth  colony  court  during 
1640-42,  and  1648-50.  On  June  2,  1640,  Mr. 
Dimock,  with  John  Crow,  of  Yarmouth,  was 
appointed  to  "join  with  Mr.  Edmond  Free- 
man of  Sandwich  to  hear  and  determine  all 
cases  and  controversies  within  the  three  town- 
ships not  exceeding  twenty  shillings,  according 
to  the  former  order  of  the  court."  This  was 
the  first  court  established  in  Barnstable  county. 
Mr.  Dimock  was  re-appointed  magistrate, 
Tune  5,  1644.  On  September  22,  1642,  he  was 
appointed  by  the  colony  court  as  member  of 
the  council  of  war,  and  on  October  10,  of  the 
same  year,  was  elected  lieutenant  of  the  Barn- 
stable militia,  retaining  the  office  until  1650. 
In  1650  he  served  as  one  of  the  commissioners 
of  the  Plymouth  colony  to  confer  with  a  simi- 
l.i t-  commission  of  the  Massachusetts  colony  to 
decide  upon  the  titles  of  the  lands  at  Shaw- 
w.imet  and  1'atuxet.  lie  was  active  in  relig- 
ious matters,  taking  a  prominent  part  in  or- 
ganizing the  church  in  Barnstable,  and  on  Au- 
gust 7,  11151).  he  was  ordained  its  elder.  He 
died  in  1658  or  [659  and  in  his  nuncupative 
will,  attested  to  by  Anthony  Annable  and  John 
Smith,  they  stated,  "when  he  was  sick  last 
summer  (1658)  he  said  that  little  he  has  he 
would  give  to  his  wife,  for  the  children  were 
hers  as  well  as  his."  Elder  Dimock  was 
greatly   respected  and  loved  by  the  people  of 


his  county.  He  was  tolerant  in  his  religious 
beliefs  and  willing  to  give  all  the  citizens  of 
the  town  equal  religious  liberty.  He  married 
Ann  1  lammond  (  ':  1  before  settling  in  Barn- 
stable. Children:  I.  Elizabeth,  married 
Kuyvet  Sears.  2.  John  (?).  3.  Timothy, 
baptized  January  12,  [639,  was  the  first  white 
person  to  die  in  Barnstable.  He  was  buried. 
June  17,  1640,  "in  the  lower  syde  of  the  Calves 
Pasture."  4.  and  5.  Twin  si  ins.  buried,  March 
iS.  [641.  6.  Mehitable,  baptized  April  18. 
1642;  married  Richard  Child,  of  Watertown 
March  30,  1662;  she  died,  August  18,  1676, 
7.  Shubael,  mentioned  below. 

(II)    Shubael,    son   of    Elder   Thomas   and; 
Ann  Dimock,  was  baptized  in  Barnstable,  Sep- 
tember 15,1644,  and  died  in  Mansfield,  Connec- 
ticut, October  20.  1732.  aged  ninety-one  years  : 
In  1669  he  was  residing  in  Yarmouth  but  soor, 
afterwards    returned    to    Barnstable.      At    ar 
early   age    he   became   prominent   in   the   civic 
and  military  affairs  of  his  town.    He  was  ofter 
appointed    to    attend    to    the    business    of    the 
town.     He  served  as  selectman  in  1685-86,  anc 
was  a  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  the  same 
years,  and  also  in  1689,  after  the  expulsion  oi: 
the    notorious    Sir    Edmund    Andros.      At   ar 
early  age  he  joined  the  militia,  and  was  electee 
ensign,  being  then  known  in  Barnstable  as  En 
sign  Shubael  Dimock.     About  1693  he  joinec 
a  company  of  Barnstable  people,  who  removec 
to  Nawbesatuck  or  Wabaquassuck,  now  Mans 
field,  Connecticut.     His  residence  in  1686  wa: 
the  fortified  house  built  by  his  father  in  1640 
The  building  was  taken  down  in   1800.     Th< 
design  of  the  house  was  known  as  the  "higl 
single":  it  was  two  stories  in  height,  the  firs 
story  being  built  of  stone  and  the  second  o 
wood.    Each  floor  contained  the  same  numbe 
of  rooms  and   fronted   due   north  and  south 
On  clear  days  the  shadows  of  the  house  actec; 
as  a  sun  dial  to  its  inmates    and  was  the  onljlj 
timepiece  they  could  consult.     He  at  once  tool  i 
a  prominent  part  in  the  organization  of  the  nev 
town.     In  1700311  effort  was  made  to  organizj 
a  Congregational  church  in  Mansfield,  and  it ' 
1 7'  n    lie    was    a    member    of    a    committee   ap 
pointed    to   secure   the   services   of   a   minister 
but  it  was  not  until  <  Ictober  [8,  1710.  that  thei 
efforts  were  successful  and  a  church,  the  Firs 
Congregational,  was  organized.     In  February 
1717,  he  was  ordained  a  deacon  in  this  church 
He  married,   in   April,    1663,  Joanna   Bursley 
daughter  of  John  Bursley,  of  Barnstable.    Sir  j 


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was  baptized  in  March,  1646,  and  died  in 
Mansfield,  May  8,  1727.  Children,  born  in 
Barnstable:  1.  Thomas,  born  in  April,  1664; 
engaged  in  the  whale  fisher}-  business,  and 
later  was  a  captain  in  the  service  of  the  colony 
against  the  French  and  Indians ;  was  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Canso  (?),  September  9,  1697; 
he  married  Desire  Sturgis ;  five  children.  2. 
John,  January,  1666,  removed  to  Falmouth, 
Massachusetts  ;  married  Elizabeth  Lombard  ; 
nine  children.  3.  Timothy,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Shubael,  February.  1673,  resided  in  Barn- 
stable, where  he  died,  December  16,  1728  ;  mar- 
ried Tabitha  Lothrop,  May  4,  1699;  s'le  died, 
July  24,  1727.  5.  Joseph,  September,  1875; 
married  May  12,  1699,  Lydia  Fuller.  6.  Me- 
hitable,  1677.  7.  Benjamin,  March,  1680,  re- 
sided in  Mansfield.  8.  Joanna,  March,  1682; 
married  Josiah  Conant.  9.  Thankful,  Novem- 
ber, 1684;  married,  June  28,  1706,  Deacon  Ed- 
mund Waldo. 

(III)  Timothy,  son  of  Shubael  and  Joanna 
(Bursley)  Dimock,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  in  Ashford,  Connec- 
ticut, 1733.  He  removed  to  Mansfield,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  made  his  home  for  many 
years,  subsequently  removing  to  Ashford,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He 
married  Abigail  Doane,  who  died  in  1718. 
Children:  1.  Timothy,  born  June  2,  1703.  2. 
John,  January  3,  1705.  3.  Shubael,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Daniel,  January  28,  1710.  5.  Israel, 
December  22,  1712.  6.  Ebenezer,  December 
22,  1715. 

(IV)  Shubael,  son  of  Timothy  and  Abigail 
(Doane)  Dimock,  was  born  in  Mansfield,  Con- 
necticut, May  27,  1707, "and  died  June  26,  1788. 
He  married  (first)  December  11,  1731,  Percilla 
Hovey,  daughter  of  James  Hovey,  of  Mans- 
field. She  died  March  14,  1747.  Children 
Asa  and  Anne  (twins),  born  August  14,  1732 
Anne,  died  July  18,  1749;  Abigail,  July  16 
1734.  died  young:  Abigail,  August  23,  1742 
Mr.  Dimock  married  (second)  November  10 
1747.  Eunice  Marsh,  daughter  of  James 
Marsh.  Children:  Lydia,  born  August  27, 
1748:  Eunice,  June  27,  1751  ;  Shubael,  men- 
tioned below;  Eunice,  2d,  June  1,  1755. 

1  V )  Shubael  (3)  Dimmick,  son  of  Shubael 
(2)  and  Eunice  (Marsh)  Dimock,  was  born 
in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  March  24,  1753. 
The  family  records  give  the  date  as  October  1, 
1752,  which  does  not  correspond  with  records 
of  Mansfield.     He  died  in  Arkville,  Delaware 


county,  New  York,  October  29,  1839,  and  was 
buried  in  the  cemetery  near  the  old  Baptist 
church  in  Batavia  Kill,  New  York.  At  an 
early  date  he  removed  to  Frederickstown,  Ul- 
ster county  (now  Putnam  county),  New  York, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  In  May,  1776, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Regiment,  Ulster 
county  (New  York)  militia.  He  was  later  a 
private  in  the  Seventh  Regiment,  Dutchess 
county  militia,  commanded  by  Colonel  Henry 
Ludenton.  He  subsequently  served  in  Colonel 
Jacobus  Swartwout's  regiment  of  minutemen, 
Dutchess  county  (New  York)  militia,  until 
September,  1781,  when  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. He  drew  a  pension  from  the  govern- 
ment from  July  5,  1832,  until  his  death.  In 
1795  he  removed  to  Middletown,  Delaware 
county.  New  York,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing until  he  removed  to  Arkville,  Delaware 
county.  New  York,  where  he  made  his  home 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of  great  force 
of  character  and  greatly  admired  and  respected 
by  the  people  of  his  community.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Fredericks- 
town,  now  Carmel,  Putnam  county,  in  1792. 
He  married  Thankful  Burbank,  who  died  in 
Batavia  Kill,  April  19.  1808.  aged  fifty-seven 
years,  five  months  and  seventeen  days.  Chil- 
dren :  Noah,  mentioned  below  ;  Perez  ;  Shu- 
bael. 

(VI)  Colonel  Noah  Dimmick,  son  of  Shu- 
bael (3)  and  Thankful  (Burbank)  Dimmick, 
was  born  in  Frederickstown,  Dutchess  (now 
Putnam)  county.  New  York,  September  14, 
1778,  and  died  in  Arkville,  town  of  Middle- 
town,  Delaware  county,  New  York,  September 
11,  1862.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his  na- 
tive county,  and  in  1795  accompanied  his 
father  to  Middletown,  Delaware  county.  He 
engaged  in  farming  for  a  time  in  Lexington. 
Greene  county,  and  in  Roxbury,  Delaware 
county.  He  then  purchased  land  in  Middle- 
town,  which  through  his  great  industry  he 
made  one  of  the  finest  farms  in  the  county. 
His  place  was  named  Arkville,  owing  to  its 
prominent  location  in  the  valley.  Here  he 
erected  a  fine  residence  and  dispensed  a  liberal 
hospitality.  He  became  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  the  county.  He  built  at  Ark- 
ville in  1826  grist  and  saw  mills,  which  he  con- 
ducted for  many  years.  He  also  owned  a  large 
general  store,  and  was  the  first  person  in  the 
town  to  own  a  carriage,  also  a  gold  watch.  He 
acquired  a  valuable  property,  and  was  highly 


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respected  by  the  citizens  of  his  county,  lie 
was  one  of  the  first  directors  of  the  Ulster 
County  Bank,  retaining  the  office  until  his 
death.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  state 
militia,  serving  for  several  years  as  colonel. 
In  politics  he  was  at  first  a  Whig  and  later  a 
Republican.  He  served  as  supervisor  of  Mid- 
dletown  from  i8h>  until  1826.  He  married 
(first)  February  10,  1801,  EllifT  Peck.  She 
was  hum  November  4.  17S3.  and  died  May  7. 
1817.  Children,  born  in  Arkville  :  Kittie  and 
Thankful  (twins),  November  14.  1802;  Han- 
nah, December  22,  1804;  Mehitable,  October 
24,  1806;  Warren,  April  28,  1808;  Elliff,  April 
26,  1810;  Thankful.  October  n,  1811;  son, 
June  26,  1813,  died  young;  child,  June,  1814. 
died  young;  Julianna,  August  2<>,  1815;  child. 
May  6,  1817.  Colonel  Dimmick  married  |  sec- 
ond) October  2.  1817,  Mary  Keator,  born 
July  8,  1797,  died  March  19,  1850.  Children: 
Noah,  born  January  1,  1819;  Mary,  April  16, 
1820,  died  July  22.  1822;  Jemima,  January  20, 
1822;  son.  June  28,  [823,  died  young;  five 
daughters,  born  respectively,  July  16,  1824, 
November  25,  1826,  June  25,  1828,  July  12, 
t8j(|,  ]ulv  14.  1831,  died  in  infancy;  Samuel 
( i..  mentioned  below 

(VII)  Samuel  Gripman,  son  of  Colonel 
Noah  and  Mary  (Keator)  Dimmick,  was  born 
at  Arkville,  New  York.  (  (ctober  17,  1833,  died 
in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  February  2j,  1899. 
while  there  on  a  pleasure  trip.  He  attended 
the  schools  of  his  native  county  and  com- 
pleted his  education  at  a  well  known  boarding 
school  on  Long  Island,  New  York.  Soon  after 
leaving  school  he  entered  his  father's  store  at 
Arkville  as  a  clerk,  and  there  received  a  careful 
business  training.  Later  he  purchased  a  tan- 
nery which  he  conducted  for  several  years. 
Subsequently  he  removed  to  Kingston,  New 
York,  and  formed  the  firm  of  Dimmick  & 
Shaw  and  began  in  the  drygoods  business.  On 
the  death  of  Mr.  Shaw  he  became  a  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Burhans  &  Webster,  drygoods 
merchants.  Subsequently  the  firm  became 
Dimmick  &  Tappan.  In  1880  he  sold  his  in- 
terest in  the  firm  and  became  private  secre- 
tary to  Thomas  Cornell,  which  position  he  held 
until  Mr.  Cornell's  death  in  i8qo.  when  he  re- 
tired from  active  business.  Mr.  Dimmick  was 
an  able  business  man  and  acquired  a  valuable 
property.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  and  for  years  was  a  teacher 
in   the   Sunday  school.      In  politics  he  was  a 


Democrat  and  held  several  local  offices.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge,  of  King- 
ston. He  was  twice  married  (first),  October 
28,  1857,  to  Christina  Hardenburgh,  who  died 
November  24,  1893.  They  had  one  child: 
Mary  Hardenburgh,  born  June  14,  t86o,  died 
June  2D.  1877  He  married  (  second  ),  (  Ictobei 
17,  1896,  Mrs.  Mary  ( (  )sterhout )  Cole,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  and  Jane  (  Luyster )  <  >sterhout,  of' 
Flatbush,  Ulster  county.  Her  father  was  a' 
son  of  Daniel  and  Helena  (  Hendricks)  (  )ster- 
hout,  married  in  Kingston,  February  21,  1793 
and  grandson  of  Cornelius  Osterhout,  a  prom- 
inent citizen  of  Flatbush. 


The  Brigham  family  is  ol 
BRIGHAM  Saxon  origin  as  is  indicated 
by  its  name,  which  is  com-' 
pounded  of  the  two  Saxon  words  "Brig," 
meaning  "bridge."  and  "Ham,"  meaning 
"home,"  the  two  together  designating  "the  mar; 
whose  home  was  by  the  bridge."  The  name  is 
found  from  early  times  in  Norfolk.  Yorkshire 
Cumberland,  and  Berwickshire,  and  in  latei 
days  in  London  and  other  parts  of  Englanc 
and  Scotland.  There  are  catalogued  at  leas' 
eight  coats-of-arms  belonging  to  different 
branches  of  the  family,  and  several  of  the 
name  became  distinguished  personages  in  th( 
history  of  their  times,  especially  Nicholas 
Brigham.  the  poet,  jurist  and  historian,  whe 
died  February  20,  1558,  and  was  buried  ir 
"Poet's  Corner"  in  Westminster  Abbey,  bej 
side  his  daughter  Rachel,  whom  he  lost  at  th( 
age  of  four. 

(I)  Thomas  Brigham,  the  founder  of  this 
family  in  American,  was  born  probably  ir 
England,  in  1603,  and  died  in  Cambridge,  Mas- 
sachusetts, December  8,  1653.  He  emigratec 
to  Massachusetts  Bay  in  the  "Susan  and  El 
len."  which  left  London  in  April,  1635.  He  i: 
said  to  have  settled  first  in  Watertown,  Massa 
chusetts,  but  the  only  evidence  is  the  fact  tha 
his  largest  piece  of  "planting  ground''  la}' 
within  the  limits  of  that  town,  and  the  asser- 
tion is  disputed  by  several  historians  of  th< 
family.  It  is  certain,  however,  that  in  1639  he 
was  a  resident  of  Cambridge,  then  known  ai- 
Newtown.  He  married,  about  1637,  Merc) 
Hurd,  who  was  born  in  England,  about  1613 
and  died  in  Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  Decern 
ber  2T,,  1603.  After  her  first  husband's  deatl 
she  married  (second)  March  1,  1655,  Edmum 
Rice,  and  in  1664  she  married  (third)  Willian 


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ii    Hunt    of    Marlboro.      Children    of    Thomas 

.     Brigham:      Mary,   born   about    1638,   died    in 

9    1676,  married  John  Fay  ;  Thomas  ( 2 ) ,  referred 

to  below ;  John,  bom  in  Cambridge,  March  9, 

1644,  died  September  16,  1728,  married  (first) 

Sarah  ,  (second)  Deborah ,  and 

(third)   Sarah  Bowker ;  Hannah,  born  March 

•     9,  1649-50,  died  in  December,   1719,  married 

(first)  Gershom  Ames,  and  (second)  William 

:    Ward ;  Samuel,  born  January   12,   1652,  died 

July  24,  1713,  married  Elizabeth  Howe. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (T)  and 
Mercy  (Hurd)  Brigham,  was  born  probably  in 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  about  1640,  and 
died  in  Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  November 
25,  1716.  He  removed  from  Cambridge  when 
his  mother  married  Edmund  Rice,  first  to  Sud- 
■  bury  and  then  to  Marlboro.  He  married 
(first)  December  27,  1665,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Moore)  Rice,  and 
r  granddaughter  of  Edmund  Rice,  the  emigrant, 
and  his  first  wife  Tamazine,  and  also  of  John 
-  and  Elizabeth  Moore,  of  Sudbury.  He  mar- 
II  ried  (second)  July  30,  1695,  Susannah, 
daughter  of  William  Shattuck,  of  Watertown, 
and  widow  of  Joseph  Morse  and  of  John  Fay, 
the  latter  of  whom  had  for  his  first  wife 
Thomas  Brigham's  sister  Mary.  Children,  all 
by  first  marriage:  Thomas  (3),  born  Febru- 
ary 24,  1666-7;  Nathan,  born  June  17,  1671, 
died  February  16,  1746-7.  married  (first)  Eli- 
zabeth Howe,  and  (second)  Mrs.  Mehitable 
(Gould)  Eaton;  David,  born  August  11,  1673, 
died  young;  Jonathan,  born  February  22,  1675, 
died  January  4,  1768,  married  March  26,  1696, 
his  cousin  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Brigham)  Fay;  David,  born  April  12,  1678, 
died  June  26,   1750,  married   (first)   Deborah 

,  and  (second)   August  21,  1709,  Mrs. 

Mary  (Leonard)  Newton,  and  (third)  ; 

Gershom,  born  February  23,  1680,  died  Jan- 
uary 3,  1748-9,  married,  May  18,  1703,  Me- 
hitable Warren  ;  Elnathan,  referred  to  below  ; 
Mary,  born  October  26,  1687,  married,  July 
30,  1710,  Captain  Jonas  Houghton,  of  Lancas- 
ter, Massachusetts. 

(Ill)  Elnathan,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Mary  ( Rice )  Brigham,  was  born  in  Marlboro, 
Massachusetts,  March  7,  1683,  and  died  in 
Mansfield  or  Coventry,  Connecticut.  April  10, 
1758-  He  drew  seventeen  acres  in  his  father's 
right,  was  surveyor  of  Marlboro  in  171 5,  and 
removed  to  Mansfield  in  171 7.  He  married, 
about  1705,  Bethiah.  daughter  of  William  and 


Hannah  (Brigham)  Ward,  who  died  in  Coven- 
try, Connecticut,  April  15,  1765,  aged  eighty- 
two  years.  Children  (the  six  elder  born  in 
Marlboro,  the  two  youngest  in  Mansfield)  : 
Uriah,  born  April  30,  1706,  died  July  9.  1710; 
Jerusha,  married,  in  1729,  Benjamin  Robinson, 
of  Windham,  Connecticut ;  Priscilla,  born 
April  3,  1709,  married.  January  2,  1726,  Mat- 
thias Marsh,  of  Coventry,  Connecticut ;  Levi- 
nah,  born  August  31,  171 1,  died  March  8,  1749. 
married,  December  16,  1729,  John,  son  of  John 
and  Mary  (Brigham)  Fay;  Prudence,  born 
January  28,  1715,  died  February  3,  17 1 5  ;  El- 
nathan (2),  referred  to  below;  Paul,  died  May 
3,  1746.  married,  July  1,  1741,  Catherine  Tur- 
ner; Uriah,  born  about  1723,  died  January  25, 
1777,  married  (first)  Lydia  Ward,  and  (sec- 
ond) Ann  Richardson. 

(IV)  Elnathan  (2),  son  of  Elnathan  (1) 
and  Bethiah  (Ward)  Brigham.  was  born  in 
Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  April  7.  1716,  and 
died  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  September  2. 
1802.  He  settled  on  the  homestead  in  Mans- 
field. His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children, 
born  in  Mansfield :  Stephen,  referred  to  be- 
low;  Elnathan  (3),  born  about  1757,  died  in 
1835,  married  Mary . 

(V)  Stephen,  son  of  Elnathan  (2)  Brigham, 
was  born  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  about 
1744,  and  died  May  7,  1816.  In  September, 
1777<  he  was  permitted  to  transport  to  Boston 
by  land  1,600  pounds  of  rye  and  wheat  flour, 
400  pounds  of  cheese,  and  200  pounds  of  but- 
ter, to  be  exchanged  for  iron  and  steel ;  also 
to  exchange  for  salt  2  tons  of  rye  and  wheat 
flour,  1,400  pounds  of  cheese,  and  600  pounds 
of  butter;  also  to  drive  to  Boston  40  fat  cattle 
and  250  fat  sheep.  In  May,  1779,  he  was  ap- 
pointed ensign  in  the  Eighth  Company,  Fifth 

State  Regiment.     He  married  (first)   , 

and  (second  )  Hannah,  daughter  of  Bennet  and 
Elizabeth  (Spofford)  Field,  who  was  born 
May  26,  1747.  Children,  four  by  first  mar- 
riage, all  born  in  Mansfield :  Eunice,  born 
February  15,  1776,  died  June  9.  1841,  married 
February  2^.  179-,  Elijah  Royce,  of  Wood- 
stock ;  Asenath,  married Wright ;  Anna, 

married    Parker ;    Lucretia.    married 

Isaac  Morey ;  Elizabeth,  died  in  1845,  married 
in  1798,  Samuel  Augustus  Spalding,  of  Mans- 
field ;  Stephen,  born  February  5,  1774,  married 
(first)  Huldah  Freeman  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Huntington  ;  Hannah,  died  unmarried  ; 
Clarissa,  married  (first)  Gerry  Russ.  and  (sec- 


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ond)  Raphael  Storrs ;  Elisha,  referred  to  be- 
low; Spofford,  married Myrick  ;  Polly, 

born  about  1785,  died  April  27,  1807,  married 
Cephas  Dunham;  Sally,  born  about  1788,  died 
June  27,  1808. 

(VI)  Elisha,  son  of  Stephen  and  Hannah 
(  Field )  Brigham,  was  born  in  Wellington, 
Connecticut,  in  1782,  and  died  in  1840,  while 
on  a  visit  to  the  same  place.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent resident  in  Wellington  for  many  years, 
where  he  owned  considerable  real  estate,  and 
acted  as  executor  for  many  estates  in  the 
neighborhood.  In  middle  life  removed  to  El- 
lenville,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  where  he 
established  a  glass  factory,  in  partnership  with 
a  Mr.  Gilbert,  which  he  conducted  until  his 
death.  He  married  Lucinda  Dexter,  who  was 
born  in  1790,  and  died  February  19,  1863. 
Children:  Jane,  married  Emory  Healy ;  Har- 
riet, married  George  B.  Hibbard  ;  Elisha  M., 
referred  to  below. 

(VII)  Elisha  M.,  son  of  Elisha  and  Lucinda 
(  I  lexter  1  Brigham,  was  born  in  Willington, 
Connecticut,  May  I,  7822.  and  died  in  King- 
ston. Ulster  county,  New  York.  December  10, 
pii  11.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  when 
fifteen  years  of  age  removed  with  his  father  to 
Ellenville,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  later  be- 
coming a  clerk  in  his  father's  store.  After  a 
few  years  he  removed  to  Kingston,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  where  he  conducted  a  gen- 
eral store  for  some  years,  and  which  he  later 
sold  and  engaged  in  the  carriage  business.  He 
afterwards  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Kingston  and  Rosendale  Lime  and  Cement 
Company,  which  business  was  subsequently 
greatly  enlarged  and  the  title  changed  to  the 
Hudson  River  Cement  Company,  and  in  which 
he  was  actively  interested  until  a  few  years 
prior  to  his  death,  when  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness life.  He  was  one  of  the  most  widely 
known  and  most  experienced  men  in  the  ce- 
ment business  of  the  state.  He  was  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  and  served  for  two  terms  as 
county  treasurer  of  Ulster  county,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  over  twenty 
years,  city  of  Kingston,  and  president  of 
the  board  over  ten  years.  He  was  a  Baptist  in 
religion,  and  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  in 
Kingston.  He  married  (first)  Margaret  Scott. 
(second)  Arietta  Halsey,  (third)  Isabella, 
daughter  of  Reuben  and  Anna  (Garrett) 
Nichols.     Children  by  second  wife:   fane  Lu- 


cinda, born  February  4,  1846;  Oliver,  born  in 
184s,  married  Emma  Cogswell.  Children  by 
third  wife:  Henry  R.,  referred  to  below 
\\  illiani  H.,  born  August  24,  1862,  married 
Susan  (  >'Neil,  child,  Mary  Hester. 

(VIII)  Henry  R.,  son  of  Elisha  M.  and  Isa- 
bella (Nichols)  Brigham,  was  born  in  King- 
ston, Ulster  county,  New  York,  August  3. 
185'),  and  is  now  (  1 9 1 3 )  living  there.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  school 
of  his  native  town,  and  graduated  from  the 
Kingston  Academy  in  1878,  and  was  then  for 
one  year  a  student  at  Colgate  College.  He  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Wabash  railroad  as 
accountant,  at  Logansport,  Indiana,  remaining 
in  that  position  until  1880,  when  he  resigned 
and  returned  to  Kingston,  where  he  became 
secretary  and  general  sales  agent  of  the  Hud- 
son River  Cement  Company,  continuing  in  that 
occupation  for  ten  years.  He  then  formed  a 
partnership  with  his  brother,  William  H.  Brig- 
ham, and  established  general  stores  at  Creek 
Locks  and  East  Kingston,  New  York,  and  in 
1892  the  firm  entered  the  brick  manufacturing 
business,  at  Fast  Kingston,  New  York,  in 
which  he  still  continues.  The  firm  erected  in 
101 2  a  new  factory  and  established  a  process 
of  drying  by  steam  which  enables  them  to 
manufacture  brick  at  all  seasons  of  the  year, 
and  the  business  has  expanded  from  an  initial 
output  of  six  million  brick  per  annum  to  an 
annual  output  of  forty-five  million  brick,  and 
gives  employment  to  four  hundred  men.  He 
also  conducts  a  cement-brick  commission  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City.  He  is  a  director  of: 
the  Greater  New  York  Brick  Company,  Newt 
York  City  ;  vice-president  of  the  Ulster  County 
Savings  Bank  in  Kingston  ;  is  one  of  the  direc- 
tors of  the  State  of  New  York  National  Bank, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
in  Kingston  for  eight  years.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  of  Kingston,  and 
is  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
church.  He  married,  October  4,  1882,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Derrick  W.  Sparling,  of  Kingston, 
New  York.  Child:  Harold  S.,  born  in  1883, 
married,  in  1906,  Charlotte  Rouse,  of  Catskill, 
New  York. 


Samuel  Boice.  the  first  member  of 
BOICE     this  family  of  whom  we  have  any 
definite    information,    was    a    far- 
mer, and  one  of  the  leading  men  of  his  day  in 
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The  family  is  of  Dutch  origin,  the  original 
spelling  of  the  name  being  Buys ;  and  Samuel 
Boice  is  probably  a  descendant  of  Jan,  "Hen- 
drick,  or  Abraham  Buys,  all  three  of  whom 
were  living  in  Poughkeepsie  as  early  as  1717" 
18.  Abraham  was  married  in  the  Dutch  church 
in  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  and  the 
three  had  children  baptized  there,  but  the  rec- 
ords at  present  available  are  insufficient  to  es- 
tablish the  exact  line  of  descent.  Among  the 
children  of  Samuel  Boice  was  Lemuel,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(II)  Lemuel,  son  of  Samuel  Boice,  was  born 
in  Shokan,  Olive  township,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  May  5,  18 19,  in  the  old  stone 
house,  where  his  grandfather  was  born,  and 
lived  on  his  farm  in  Olive  township.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  schools, 
then  engaged  in  farming,  and  later  became  in- 
terested in  the  preparation  of  bark  for  tanneries 
and  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  and  built 
a  tannery  at  Boiceville  (which  place  was 
named  in  his  honor),  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  in  which  occupation  he  continued  until 
1866.  He  now  returned  to  the  homestead  and 
again  engaged  in  farming,  and  also  in  operat- 
ing several  saw-mills  which  he  had  bought, 
conducting  them  until  1S70,  when  he  purchased 
the  property,  where  he  erected  the  "Hamilton 
House"  and  also  cultivated  a  farm.  In  1876 
he  received  the  contract  for  grading  the  road- 
bed and  constructing  the  arches  and  bridge  on 
the  railroad  between  Arkville  and  Delhi,  New 
York,  and  he  continued  the  work  until  the 
project  was  abandoned,  and  then  returned  to 
Shokan  and  engaged  in  business  until  1885, 
when  he  retired  from  active  life.  He  was  a 
man  of  great  strength  of  character,  and  was 
considered  one  of  the  men  best  informed  in 
general  topics  in  the  township.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Republican  and  active  in  the  affairs  of 
the  party,  and  in  1858  was  elected  supervisor 
of  the  township.  He  married  (first)  Mary 
Ann  Brinck,  of  Olive  township,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  who  died  June  — ,  1874.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  March "30,  1876,  Mary  C.  Hill. 
Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  1.  Horace, 
born  July  24,  1843,  now  living  in  Kingston, 
New  York.  2.  Nancy,  born  January  23,  1845  ! 
married  Alonzo  G.  Davis.  3.  Ellen,  born 
March  6,  1847;  married  W.  S.  Brown.  4. 
Lewis,  born  September  23,  1849.  5.  Elizabeth, 
born  January  6,  1852:  married  Isaac  M.  Davis. 
6.  Leland,  born  June  14,  1854.    7.  Zadoc  Pratt, 


referred  to  below.     8.  Orpha,  deceased ;  mar- 
ried George  Siemons. 

(Ill)  Zadoc  Pratt,  son  of  Lemuel  and  Mary 
Ann  (Brinck)  Boice,  was  born  July  29,  1858, 
and  is  now  living  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county, 
New  York.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Shokan,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  was  for  one  winter  a  pupil  at  the 
private  school  of  Miss  Sally  Inghram.  He  then 
worked  for  his  father  for  a  few  years,  and  was 
also  in  the  employ  of  C.  C.  Winnie  for  a  short 
time.  In  1878  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
D.  W.  Ennist  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  continued  until  October  1, 
1885,  when  he  purchased  the  estate,  consisting 
of  eighteen  pieces  of  property  at  West  Shokan, 
which  had  formerly  been  owned  by  his  father. 
He  is  an  extensive  owner  of  real  estate  and  a 
progressive,  successful  business  man.  In  June, 
1894,  he  was  elected  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  State  of  New  York  National  Bank  in  King- 
ston, an  office  he  still  holds,  and  he  is  also  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  Ulster  County  Savings 
Bank.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  county  central  commit- 
tee for  many  years.  In  1893  he  was  elected 
supervisor,  and  re-elected  to  that  office  in  1894 
for  a  term  of  two  years ;  and  in  1906  he  was 
elected  by  an  overwhelming  majority  to  the 
office  of  sheriff  of  Ulster  county.  He  is  a 
member  of  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  10,  of  the 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is  also  a  mem- 
brr  of  Mountain  Gate  Lodge.  No.  299,  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  at  West  Shokan.  He  mar- 
ried, October  6,  1880.  Delia  Elmendorf.  of 
Olive  township,  Ulster  county.  New  York. 
Children:  t.  Lena,  born  February  12,1883.  _'. 
Delta,  born  September  _>,    [891. 


Thomas  Pettit,  the  founder  of 
PETTIT     this  family,  was  born  in  Suffolk 

county.  England,  and  died  in 
Westchester  county,  New  York,  in  1861.  He 
immigrated  to  New  York  City  in  1832'  and  en- 
gaged in  the  trade  of  carpenter  and  millwright. 
The  following  year  he  was  joined  by  his  wife 
and  children,  and  in  1830  the  family  removed 
lo  Kingston.  Ldster  county.  New  York,  where 
Mr.  Pettit  followed  the  trade  of  a  cabinet- 
maker for  a  number  of  years.  Later  he  re- 
moved to  Westchester  county,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death.  In  religion  he  was  a  Baptist. 
He  married,   in   England,   Ann   Borrem,  who 


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died  in  Westchester  county,  New  York,  in 
[886.  Children:  Ann;  Thomas;  William,  liv- 
ing in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  1896;  George, 
living  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  [896.  John, 
referred  to  below;  Elizabeth,  born  about  1820. 
now  living  in  Bristol,  England  ;  .Mary,  living  in 
Westchester  county,  New  York,  in  [896; 
Rockwell,  living  in  Westchester  county.  New 
York,  in   [896;  Henry;  Charlotte;  Sarah. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (  Bor- 
rem)  Pettit,  was  born  in  Suffolk,  England, 
February  28,  [828,  and  died  in  Kingston,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York,  <  >ctober  8,  1905.  He 
was  brought  to  .America  by  his  mother  in  [833, 
and  when  the  family  settled  in  Kingston,  New 
York,  he  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  there,  lie  then  learned  the  trade  of 
carpenter  and  millwright  from  his  father,  with 
whom  he  worked  until  he  was  twenty-one  years 
old,  when  he  went  into  the  sash  and  blind- 
making  business,  and  had  his  shop  on  Wilbur 
avenue,  in  Kingston,  until  i860,  lie  now  be- 
gan the  manufacture  of  powder-kegs  for  the 
Smith,  Rand  Powder  Company,  and  gave  his 
whole  time  to  this  occupation  until  lie  reined 
from  business  in  [902.  An  upright,  honest, 
self-made  man,  who  started  in  business  with 
no  assistance  from  anyone,  through  his  energy, 
industry  and  good  management  he  became  one 
of  the  most  successful  manufacturers  of  King- 
ston, lie  was  a  Baptist  in  religion,  and  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  was  elected  four  times 
on  the  Republican  ticket  as  alderman  of  King- 
ston. 

Mr.  Pettit  married,  September  5,  1853, 
Amanda  M.,  daughter  of  Amor  and  Lovina 
(Clark)  Richardson,  who  was  born  in  Albany, 
New  York,  May  17,  1836,  and  is  now  living  in 
Kingston.  Children:  1.  Lovina  A.,  married 
C.  Beekman  Jansen,  of  Kingston;  children: 
Edna,  married  Edwin  Van  Wart ;  <  I  race  F.  , 
now  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  Hoboken, 
New  Jersey ;  and  Mary  Emma.  2.  Minnie  E., 
married  Walter  S  Darling,  of  Kingston  New 
York. 


CASE 


The  Case  family  of  Connecticut  is 
of  English  origin  and  is  distinct 
from  the  family  of  the  same  name 
which  is  now  found  side  by  side  with  it  in 
many  parts  of  the  United  States,  hut  whose 
origin,  as  the  original  spelling  of  the  name, 
Kase,  implies,  was  German.  John  Casse  or 
Case,  according  to  Drake's  "Founders  of  New 


England,"  sailed  from  Gravesend,  England,  in 
the  ship  "Dorset,"  John  Flower,  master,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1035,  for  the  Bermudas,  when  only 
nineteen  years  old.  In  1640  he  is  found  at 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  August  13,  1656,' 
he  was  one  of  the  inhabitants  of  Maspeth  Kills 
(now  Newtown),  Long  Island.  In  the  follow- 
ing year  he  joined  the  new  colony  of  Windsor,  >. 
on  the  Connecticut  river,  eight  or  nine  miles 
above  Hartford,  and  in  1667  he  was  one  of  the 
twenty  to  whom  the  first  grants  of  land  there 
were  made.  Two  years  later,  with  thirteen 
others,  he  removed  to  Massacoe  (later  Sims- 
bury),  and  in  1670  was  sent  to  the  general 
court  as  a  delegate.  He  settled  in  the  south 
part  of  Simsbury,  then  known  as  Weatogue, 
and  served  in  several  of  the  town  offices  from 
time  to  time,  until  his  death.  He  died  Febru- 
ary 21.  1703-04.  He  married  (first)  Sarah, 
daughter  of  William  and  Agnes  Spencer,  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  who  was  born  in  1636, 
and  died  in  1691.  He  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Loomis,  of  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  who  died  in  1728,  aged  ninety 
years.  Children  (all  by  first  marriage)  :  Eli- 
zabeth, horn  1658,  died  in  1718,  married 
(first)  Joseph  Lewis,  (second)  John  Tuller;  . 
Mary,  born  in  1660,  died  in  1725,  married 
(first)  William  Alderman,  (second)  James 
Hillyer  ;  John  (  2  ) ,  referred  to  below  ;  William, 
born  in  1665,  died  in  1700,  married  Elizabeth 
Holcomb;  Samuel,  born  in  1667,  died  in  1725, 
married  (first)  Mary  Westover,  (second)  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Owen)  Thrall;  Richard,  born  in 
1669,  died  in  1746,  married,  September  I, 
1701,  Amy  Reed;  Bartholomew,  born  in  Oc- 
tober,  1670,  died  in  1725,  married,  December 
7,  [699,  Mary  Humphries;  Joseph,  born  April 
1 1,  1  <  >J4.  died  in  174S,  married,  April  6,  1699, 
.Anna  Eno ;  Sarah,  born  April  20,  1676,  died 
in  1704,  married  Joseph  Phelps,  Jr.;  Abigail, 
born  May  4,  1682,  married,  September  1,  1701, 
Jonah  Westover,  Jr. 

(II)  John  (2).  son  of  John  (  1  )  and  Sarah 
(Spencer)  Case,  was  born  in  Connecticut  in 
1662,  and  died  in  Simsbury,  Connecticut,  May 
22,  1733.  He  married  (first)  September  12, 
1684,  Mary,  daughter  of  Mary  Olcutt,  of  1 
Hartford.  Connecticut,  and  (second)  Mary 
Holcomb.  Children  (one  by  first  marriage): 
John,  born  August  6,  1685,  died  young;  John 
(2),  born  August  22,  1694,  died  December  2, 
1752,  married.  January  24,  1716,  Abigail  Hum- 
phries ;  Daniel,  referred  to  below ;  Jonathan,. 


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)orn  April  15,  1701,  married,  May  10,  1721, 
Vlary  Beaman. 

(Ill)  Daniel,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mary 
(Holcomb)  Case,  was  born  in  Simsbury,  Con- 
lecticut,  March  7,  1695,  and  died  there  May 
28,  1733.  He  married,  May  7,  1719,  Penelope 
Butler,  of  Simsbury.  Children  ( all  born  in 
Simsbury)  :  Daniel,  born  January  31,  1719-20, 
married,  February  22,  1750,  Mary  Watson; 
Mindwell,  born  October  24,  1721  ;  Dudley,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Susannah,  born  September 
20,   1726;  Ezekiel,  born   September  30,   1731, 

Tiarried    (first)    Lucy  ,   (second)    May 

16,  1771,  Mrs.  Mary  (Allin)  Hoskins. 
1     (IV)   Dudley,  son  of  Daniel  and  Penelope 
(Butler)  Case,  was  born  in  Simsbury,  Connec- 
ticut, November  3,   1723.     He  married,  April 

14,  1743,  Dorcas  Humphrey.  Children  (all 
3orn  in  Simsbury)  :  Dudley  (  2  ) .  born  Octo- 
Der  28,  1744;  Elisha,  born  December  10,  1747, 
died  young;  Ozias,  born  June  7.  1749,  died 
young;  Elias,  born  March  5,  1753,  died 
young;  Elisha,  born  April  30,  1755;  Ozias, 
Dorn  July  24,  1757;  Elias,  born  April  15,  1759; 
Daniel,  referred  to  below  ;  Dorcas,  born  Au- 
gust 14,  1764 ;  Truman,  born  January  22,  1767  ; 
Emanuel,  born  March  25,  1769. 

(V)  Daniel,  son  of  Dudley  and  Dorcas 
(Humphrey)  Case,  was  born  in  Simsbury, 
Connecticut.  March  5,  1761.  Among  his  chil- 
dren was  Daniel  (2),  referred  to  below. 

(VI)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (1)  Case, 
was  born  in  Connecticut,  May  19,  1784,  and 
died  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  in  N<  vem- 
ber,  1864.  He  remained  with  his  parents  until 
eleven  years  of  age,  and  then,  owing  to  dis- 
agreements with  his  father,  removed  to  Sho- 
kan,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  where  he 
worked  on  a  farm  and  learned  the  trade  of  a 
tanner,  which  he  followed  for  many  years  in 
different  localities,  and  principally  in  Spencer- 
town,  Columbia  county.  New  York,  where  the 
majority  of  his  children  were  born.  He  mar- 
ried, September  15,  1808,  Sylvia  Barber,  who 
was  born  July  19,  1787,  and  died  in  January, 
1861.     Children:     Sherman,  born   September 

15,  1809;  Laura,  born  September  8,  1811; 
Chauncey,  referred  to  below ;  Harriet,  born 
October  16,  1815,  died  July  6,  1892;  Henry, 
born  January  18,  1819,  drowned  in  1852;  Cal- 
vin, born  March  16,  1821  ;  Austin,  born  April 

16,  1823,  died  December  6,  1902  ;  George,  born 
July  10.  1826. 

(VII)  Chauncey,   son   of   Daniel    (2)    and 


Sylvia  (Barber)  Case,  was  born  in  Spencer- 
town,  Columbia  county,  New  York,  July  1 1 , 
1813,  died  while  on  a  visit  to  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  May  8,  1875,  and  is  buried  in  King- 
ston, Ulster  county,  New  York.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  and 
then  learned  the  trade  of  a  tanner  with  his 
father,  at  Shokan,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
remaining  there  until  after  his  marriage,  when 
he  settled  in  Mariaville,  Hancock  county, 
Maine,  where  he  engaged  for  many  years  in 
the  tannery  and  bark  business,  until  failing 
health  compelled  his  retirement  from  active 
life.  He  was  a  Congregationalist  in  religion, 
and  was  one  of  the  officers  of  the  church  in 
Mariaville.  He  married,  October  15,  1839, 
Margaret  E.  Dunnagan.  who  was  born  in 
Rhinebeck,  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1815,  died  July  26,  1895.  Children: 
Augusta  M.,  married  Arthur  A.  Pond,  of  Ban- 
gor, Maine,  and  had  a  child,  Chauncey  L. 
(Pond);  Chauncey  H,  died  August  4,  1856; 
Harriet  Lillian,  now  living  in  Kingston,  Ulster 
county,  New  York  ;  Margaret  Ellen,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 


Luke  Noone,  son  of  Martin  and 
NOONE  Ann  (Gately)  Noone,  was  born 
in  Ahasceragh,  County  Galway. 
Ireland,  November  24,  1822.  He  spent  his 
boyhood  at  home,  received  a  common  school 
education,  and  then  learned  the  business  of 
stone-cutting  from  his  father,  who  was  a  con- 
tractor. 

In  March,  1848.  with  his  sister  Mary,  he 
sailed  from  Liverpool  in  the  ship  "James 
Stephens,"  and  landed  at  Boston.  He  soon 
became  engaged  in  stone-cutting  and  con- 
tracting for  jobs  on  the  New  York  &  Erie 
railroad.  On  November  11,  1848,  he  went  to 
Kingston,  New  York,  in  which  place  and  in 
Troy,  New  York,  he  spent  the  next  two  years 
at  his  trade.  In  1850  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  three  other  men,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Edward  Murray  &  Company,  and  superin- 
tended the  construction  of  the  way-lock 
at  West  Troy.  In  1852  he  took  the  con- 
tract and  furnished  the  stone  for  the 
Second  Reformed  Church  in  Kingston 
New  York.  The  firm,  the  name  now 
changed  to  Noone  &  Fitzgerald,  also  took 
the  contract  for  Lock  Number  2  on  the  Erie 
Canal,  near  Albany,  and   from   1855   to   1857 


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furnished  cut  stone  for  and  contracted  the 
lower  luck  at  Fort  Ann,  New  York.  After 
this  Mr  Noone  continued  the  business  for 
many  years,  and  among  his  most  important 
contracts  were  furnishing'  cut  •-tunc  for  a 
portion  of  the  Harlem  Bridge  in  New  York 
City;  a  way-lock  on  Champlain  (/anal,  above 
Waterford,  New  York ;  guard-lock  at  Cohoes; 
a  blast-furnace  for  the  firm  of  Henry  Burden 
&  Sun,  of  Troy;  the  stone  for  the  river  wharf 
of  Watervliet  Arsenal,  at  Watervliet,  New 
York;  the  stone  for  the  sea-wall  for  the  Bat- 
tery in  New  York  City;  a  part  of  the  cut-stone 
for  the  fort  at  Sandy  Hook,  in  charge  of 
General  Delafield;  a  portion  of  the  stone  used 
in  the  construction  of  the  Capitol  in  Albany, 
and  for  the  bridge  across  the  Hudson  at  Al- 
bany; also  two  •-tune-  weighing  some  fourteen 
tuns  each  for  the  Dudley  <  >bservatory  at  Al- 
bany. In  1870  he  took  Frank  Madden  into 
partnership  with  him,  the  firm  name  becoming 
Noone  &  Madden.  They  kept  in  almost  con- 
stant employment  one  hundred  and  thirty  men 
and  from  eighteen  to  twenty-four  teams. 
quarrying  their  stone  in  Kingston,  hauling  it 
to  the  Hudson,  and  shipping  by  water  to  dis- 
tant points  fur  the  construction  of  both  public 
and  private  works,  among  which  should  be 
mentioned  the  East  River  Bridge  between 
New  York  and  Brooklyn.  Mr.  Noone  was 
one  of  the  most  successful  and  prominent  men 
in  the  development  of  the  stone  products  of 
Ulster  county.  He  was  director  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Kingston  National  Bank,  and 
since  the  organization  of  the  Kingston  Sav- 
ings Bank  he  was  successively  trustee,  vice- 
president  and  president  of  that  institution,  lie 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  served  as  trustee 
of  the  village  of  Kingston  for  two  years,  as 
supervisor  for  the  city  of  Kingston,  a  dele- 
gate to  the  I  >emocratic  State  Convention  held 
in  Albany  in  1877,  and  to  the  State  Conven- 
tion held  in  Syracuse  in  1879. 

In  1867  Mr.  Noone  purchased  of  the  Slate, 
through  General  Gates,  the  present  St.  Jo- 
seph's Church  property,  which  was  then  a 
State  Armory,  lie  held  the  property  for  two 
years,  when  it  was  deeded  to  St.  Joseph's  con- 
gregation. With  characteristic  reticence  he 
never  talked  of  the  matter,  so  it  was  not  gen- 
erally known  by  whom  the  purchase  was  made, 
until  the  consecration  of  the  church  in  1908, 
when  Archbishop  Farley  called  upon  Mrs. 
Noone    and    received    from    her   the    deed    by 


which  the  transaction  hail  been  consummate' 
nearly   forty-two  years  before. 

In  1870  Mr.  Noone  and  his  wife  visited  hi 
old  home  in  Ireland.  February  16,  1854,  h 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  James  and  Jan 
(  Downey)  Diamond  of  Rondout,  New  York 
lie  died  March  17,  1905,  and  is  survived  b; 
his  wife  and  two  daughters:  Jane,  who  mar1 
ried  William  J.  (  I'Leary,  M.I),  of  Kingston' 
and  Anna,  who  married  Edward  I  toward  Tin 
dale.  ..f  New  York. 

No  better  estimate  of  Mr.  Noone's  characte 
can  be  given  than  in  the  words  of  his  busines 
associates:  "We  have  found  in  Mr.  Noone 
man  of  kindly  nature,  strict  integrity,  an* 
wise  and  conservative  counsel.  For  over  fift 
years  he  has  been  known  in  this  communit 
as  one  of  our  must  reliable,  conservative  an> 
trustworthy  citizens.  No  man  has  been  mor 
trusted,  and  no  man  has  more  fully  met  an 
discharged   the  trusts  reposed   in  him." 


According  to  Lower,  a  firs 
BARNES  authority,  the  surname  Barne' 
is  in  origin  the  same  as  Bernen 
Idle  famous  Domesday  Book  of  England  rec 
ords  Hugh  de  Berners  as  a  tenant  in  chie 
holding  Eversdan,  County  Cambridge,  Eng 
land,  ddie  I  tin.  Norm,  has  mention  of  sj 
localities  called  Bernierres,  in  different  part 
of  Normandy,  but  which  of  them,  if  any,  i 
the  cradle  of  the  race,  is  not  known.  Ther 
are  several  Barnes  families  in  the  Unite 
States,  but  not  traceable  to  a  common  origit 
1  I  )  James  Barnes,  the  first  member  of  thi 
immediate  family  in  the  United  States,  wa 
a  resident  of  Colchester,  Essex  county,  Eng. 
land,  where  he  died.  lie  was  a  farmer,  an 
a  man  of  excellent  repute.  The  name  of  hi 
wife  is  unknown.  Children:  Thomas,  an 
George,  of  whom  further. 

(II)    George,    son    of    James    Barnes,    wa 
born    in    Colchester,    Essex    county,    Englanc  ' 
September  <),  1805,  and  died  in  Kingston,  U 
ster  eountw  New  York,  in  1884.     He  receive 
his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his  nativ 
town,  and   in   1832  came  to  America  and  set 
tied  in   New   York  City,  where   for  two  year 
be  was  engaged  in  the  shoe  business.     In  183! 
lie  removed  to  Kingston,  where  he  establishe  ' 
a    similar    business,    which    he    continued    fc 
many    years.      During   this    time   he   was    01 
dained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Baptist  churcl  . 
and  preached  in  the  churches  of  Kingston  an  I 


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the  surrounding  country.  He  was  one  of  the 
reorganizers  of  the  Bethany  Mission,  of  which 
he  became  superintendent,  and  was  noted  for 
his  work  in  the  missionary  field,  and  as  an 
earnest  and  zealous  Christian  man.  He  mar- 
ried, in  the  North  Baptist  Church,  in  New 
York  City,  December  16,  1831,  Charlotte 
Twitchett,  who  was  born  May  24,  1807,  in 
Kelvedon,  England,  and  died  in  1894,  in  King- 
ston. Children :  George  T.,  born  September 
16.  1832;  Joseph  E.,  June  28,  1834;  James  T., 
February  11,  1836;  Elizabeth  G.,  August  14. 
1837;  Emily  B.,  April  3,  1839;  Charlotte  A.. 
January  1,  1841  ;  Anna  D.,  January  26,  1843; 
Andrew  N.,  of  whom  further;  Josephine  P., 
January  25,  185 1. 

(Ill)  Andrew  N..  son  of  George  and  Char- 
lotte (Twitchett)  Barnes,  was  born  in  King- 
ston, New  York,  November  18,  1847.  ar>d  is 
now  living  there.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Kingston  Academy,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
years  entered  the  drygoods  house  of  Merritt 
&  Crosby,  in  Kingston,  and  was  later  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  confidential  book- 
keeper, and  manager  of  the  branch  of  the 
firm  at  Rondout,  New  York.  In  1873  he  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  the  drygoods  firm  of 
James  O.  Merritt,  Brodhead  &  Company.  In 
1877  he  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Rondout. 
New  York,  by  President  Hayes,  was  reap- 
pointed by  President  Arthur,  and  retired  from 
office  in  1886.  He  then  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  wholesale  furniture  business  of  Knight 
&  Gregory,  in  Kingston,  the  firm  becoming 
Knight.  Gregory  &  Barnes,  and  so  continuing 
until  1887,  when  Mr.  Knight  disposed  of  his 
interest,  and  the  firm  became  Gregory  & 
Barnes,  and  remained  so  until  Mr.  Barnes 
sold  his  interest  in  the  firm  and  retired  from 
active  business  in  1912.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  was  alderman  from  the  second 
ward  of  Kingston  from  1895  to  1897.  For 
twenty-five  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Kingston  Board  of  Trade,  and  for  twelve 
years  a  director.  He  is  a  member  of  King- 
ston Lodge,  No.  10,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons.  At  one  time  he  was  president  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  ;  and  since 
1874  he  has  been  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Albany  Avenue  Baptist  Church, 
and  for  fourteen  years  was  superintendent  of 
its  Sunday  school.  Mr.  Barnes  married,  June 
20,  1871,  Sarah  K.  born  August  27,  1846, 
daughter  of  John  S.  and  Anne  Eliza  (  Cramer) 


Willis.  Her  father,  a  merchant  and  cracker 
manufacturer  in  Kingston,  died  February  25, 
1884;  her  mother  was  born  December  12,  1822, 
and  died  March  24,  1892.  Child  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Barnes :    C.  Everett,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  C.  Everett,  only  child  of  Andrew  N. 
and  Sarah  K.  (Willis)  Barnes,  was  born  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  May  5,  1872,  and  is  now 
living  there.  He  received  his  early  education 
in  the  Kingston  Academy,  and  then  entered 
the  New  York  Homoeopathic  College,  but  was 
obliged  to  relinquish  his  studies,  owing  to  im- 
paired health.  Returning  to  Kingston,  he 
later  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
furniture  busines.  He  married,  March  12, 
1898,  Helen  Brodhead.  Child:  Gordon  Wil- 
lis, born  October  30,  1903. 


Philip  Shafer,  the   founder  of 
SHAFER     the  family  in  this  country,  was 

born  in  Holland,  December  12, 
1764,  and  died  in  Andes,  Delaware  county, 
New  York,  October  8,  1838.  He  emigrated 
from  Holland  to  America  about  1784,  and  set- 
tled near  the  east  branch  of  the  Delaware 
river  in  Delaware  county,  where  he  cleared 
a  farm  of  three  hundred  acres,  which  he  cul- 
tivated until  his  death.    He  married  Catherine 

,   born   in    1761,   died   in    Andes,    New 

York,  July  6,  1837.     Among  his  children  was 
Philip   (2),  referred  to  below. 

(in  Philip  (2),  son  of  Philip  (1)  and 
Catherine  Shafer,  was  born  on  his  father's 
farm  at  Andes,  Delaware  county,  New  York. 
December  12,  1794,  and  died  in  Delaware 
county,  September  21,  1873.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  stock-raiser,  and  also  engaged  in  the 
lumbering  business.  He  served  in  the  United 
States  army  during  the  Mexican  war.  He 
married,  May  13,  1824,  Sarah  Melvina, 
daughter  of  Ezra  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Bene- 
dict, who  was  born  June  23.  1805,  and  died 
April  11,  1880  (see  Benedict  VI).  Children: 
William  P.,  born  September  14,  1825  ;  Bene- 
dict, referred  to  below;  Mary  Jane,  born  Sep- 
tember 27,  1829;  Sarah  C,  born  September 
24,  1832;  Ezra  B.,  born  August  3,  1835;  Mar- 
cus P.,  born  July  21,  1837;  Andrew  C.,  born 
December  29,  1839 :  Frances  Ann,  born  May 
10.  1842;  Francis  Marion,  born  March  10, 
1846;  Frances  Maria,  twin  with  Francis 
Marion,  born  March  10,  1846. 

(Ill)  Colonel  Benedict  Shafer,  son  of 
Philip    (2)    and    Sarah    Melvina    (Benedict) 


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Shafer,  was  born  in  Andes,  Delaware  county, 
New  York,  March  iS,  [827,  died  <  Ictober  23, 
1909,  at  Kingston.  lie  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  and  the  Ancles 
.Academy,  and  in  [849  entered  the  general 
hardware  business  in  Andes  and  later  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  tinware,  in  which  he 
continued  until  1 S 5 5 .  when  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  and  removed  to  Eddyville,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  and  assumed  charge  of  the 
cement  works  id"  Thomas  W.  Cornell  &  Com- 
pany. In  1X71  he  purchased  a  one-half  inter- 
est in  the  business  and  in  partnership  witli 
Henry  C  Connelly  established  the  firm  of  Con- 
nelly &  Shafer.  and  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  Rosendale  cement  and  the  conducting 
of  a  general  store.  In  1899  the  cement  manu- 
facturing interests  were  sold  to  the  Consoli- 
dated Cemenl  Company,  and  the  linn  con- 
tinued in  the  general  merchandise  business 
until  the  death  of  Colonel  Shafer  lie  served 
as  a  commissioner  ami  secretary  of  the  board 
of  the  Ulster  and  Delaware  railroad  until  the 
bonded  indebtedness  of  that  road  was  liqui- 
dated lie  was  for  many  years  adjutant  of 
the  Twenty-sixth  Regiment  National  Guard  of 
the  State  of  New  York.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1857,  Jane  Frances,  daughter  of 
Thomas  \Y.  and  Emeline  (Lawrence)  Cornell, 
of  Eddyville,  New  York,  who  was  horn  Janu- 
ary 2(>.  [835.  Children:  William  Cornell,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Emma  F.,  born  April  r6, 
1861,  died  in  infancy;  Emma  F.,  horn  lulv  n>, 
1863,  died  young;  Mary  J.,  born  September 
If),  1866,  now  living  in  New  York  City,  mar- 
ried, in  [890,  Leonidas  Dennis;  Emeline  I 
horn  February  26,   [869,  died  young. 

(  IV  1  William  Cornell,  son  of  Colonel  Bene- 
dict and  Jane  Frances  (Cornell)  Shafer,  was 
born  in  Andes,  Delaware  county.  New  York, 
Septi  mber  18,  1858,  and  is  now  living  in  King- 
ston, New  York.  lie  received  his  early 
education  in  private  schools  at  Andes  and 
later  graduated  from  the  Kingston  Academy, 
and  then  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
in  Eddyville,  Yew  York,  for  four  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  disposed 
ol  his  business  and  became  superintendent  for 
the  Connelly  &  Shafer  Cement  Company  in 
Eddyville.  in  which  position  he  remained  until 
l<)('>  lie  then  engaged  in  the  business  of 
haberdasher  and  hoot  and  shoe  store  for  three 
years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  retired  from 
active  business  life.     He  is  one  of  the  directors 


of  the  Ulster  County  National  Hank;  also  o. 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  it 
Kingston,  and  is  a  member  of  the  building 
committee  of  the  association.  He  is  a  Method 
ist  in  religion,  and  is  a  member  of  the  officia 
hoard  of  the  Saint  James  Methodist  Episcopa 
Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Kingstotj 
Club;  the  Dutch  Arms  Club  of  Kingston;  tin 
.Automobile  Club  of  Kingston,  and  of  the  Dela 
ware  Valley  Society  of  New  York.  He  mar 
ried,  April  jo,  [898,  Minnie,  daughter  of  Wil 
ham  II  and  Nettie  M.  (Winter)  Whitney, 
horn  in  Shandaken,  Ulster  county,  Nev 
York,  June  9,  1874.  Child:  Ruth  W.,  bon 
December  28,    1800. 

(The  Benedict  Line.) 

Thomas  Benedict,  the  founder  of  the  famil 
in  this  country,  was  horn  about  1617,  and  die' 
between  February  28  and  March  iS.  [689-9 
at  Norwalk,  Connecticut.  He  emigrated  i 
[638  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  colony,  and  i 
1640  removed  to  Southold,  Connecticut.  I 
[657  he  was  a  resident  in  Huntington,  Lon 
Island,  and  later  removed  to  Danbury,  an 
finally  to  Norwalk.  He  married  Mary  Brid 
gem.  Children:  Thomas,  died  November  2C 
[688-9,  married  in  January,  1665,  Mary  Mes 
scngcr;  John,   married   Phebe  Gregory,   Sara 

ml.    died     in     1701,    married     (first)     ! 

— .  and  (  second  1  Rebecca  Andrews 
James,  referred  to  below;  Daniel,  marrie 
Mary  Marvin;  Elizabeth,  married  John  Slat 
son;  Mary,  married  John  Olmsted;  Saral 
married  James  Becbe ;  Rebecca,  married  D 
Samuel  Wood. 

(II)  fames,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mar 
(Bridgem)  Benedict,  was  born  in  SouthoU 
Long  Island,  and  died  after  August.  171^ 
He  married  (first)  May  10,  1676,  Saral 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Gregory,  wh 
was  born  December  3,  1652.  He  marrie 
(second)  Sarah,  born  December  20,  165; 
daughter  of  Robert  Porter  and  widow  C1 
Abraham  Andrus.  He  was  one  of  the  eigl 
who  bought  and  settled  Danbury,  Connection 
Children  (all  by  first  marriage)  :  Sarah,  bor 
lune  Ml  [677;  Rebecca,  born  in  1670.  die 
M.inh  20,  [709,  married  January  17.  1704-0 
Samuel  Keeler,  Tr. ;  Phebe.  married  Thomi 
Taylor;  lames,  horn  in  1685,  married  Mai 
Andrus;  John,  born  in  October,  1689,  died  :i 
February.      IJ7C      married      (first)       Rach 

and   (  second  1    Ruth  —      — ;  Thoma 


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referred   to   below;   Elizabeth,   born    in   July, 
1696,  married  Samuel  Taylor. 

(III)  Deacon  Thomas  Benedict,  son  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Gregory)  Benedict,  was 
born  in  Danbury,  Connecticut,  November  9, 
1694,  died  before  July  4,  1776.  He  married 
Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Hoyt.  Children : 
Sarah;  Molly,  died  in  1745,  married  Joseph 
Starr;  Thomas,  born  in  1727,  died  May  15, 
1811,  married  Mercy  Knapp ;  Theodorius, 
born  November  1,  1728.  died  January  20,  1805, 
married  (first)  February  2,  1747,  Abigail 
Starr,  (second)  Mrs.  Catherine  Dibble;  Eliza- 
beth, born  1729,  married  James  Taylor;  Eli- 
sha,  born  April  2,  1736,  died  August  26,  1798, 

married  (first) ,  (second)  Mrs. 

Jerusha   (  Starr )    Barnum ;  Margaret,  born  in 
1743,  died  April  25,  1808;  Robert,  referred  to 

below;  Mindwell,  married  Hamilton; 

Thankful,  married  April  2.  1760,  Nathan  (ire- 
gory;  Hannah,  married  (first) , 

and    ( second )    Samuel    Perry :    Jemima,   mar- 
ried     Hamilton. 

(IV)  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail 
(Hoyt)  Benedict,  was  born  in  1744.  and  died 
at  Charlton,  Saratoga  county.  New  York,  in 
1828.  He  married  Sarah  Ketchum.  Chil- 
dren: Robert,  bom  July  14,  1770,  died 
March  3,  1862,  married.  January  10.  1709. 
Phebe  Faris ;  Sally,  married  John  Dunning ; 
Reuben ;  Ezra,  referred  to  below ;  Betsy,  born 
December  25,  1778,  died  December  30,  1851, 
married,  March  27.  1796,  Henry  Van  Heusen ; 
Czar,  died  young ;  Czar,  died  young ;  a  son, 
died  young ;  Cynthia,  married  James  King ; 
Rebecca,  married  Peter  Howe. 

(V)  Ezra,  son  of  Robert  and  Sarah 
(Ketchum)  Benedict,  was  born  at  Charlton, 
Saratoga  county,  New  York,  July  7,  1776, 
died  in  Andes,  Delaware  county,  New  York, 
April  26,  1849.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  William  Clarke,  who  died  March  28.  1859. 
Children :  William  Clarke,  born  September 
27.  1802,  married,  March  22,  1831,  Electa 
Dodge ;  Sarah  Melvina,  referred  to  below ; 
Henry,  born  July  12,  1807,  died  August  8, 
1808;  Sarah  Ann,  born  July  13,  1809,  married 
May  12,  1830,  Elijah  Churchill:  Henry,  born 
October  11,  181 1,  died  December  11.   181 1. 

(VI)  Sarah  Melvina,  daughter  of  Ezra  and 
Sarah  (Clarke)  Benedict,  was  born  June  23, 
1805,  and  died  April  11,  1880.  She  married 
May  13,  1824,  Philip  (2),  son  of  Philip  (1) 
and  Catherine   Shafer,  referred  to  above. 


The  Rev.  Matthew  Cantine 
CANTINE  Julien,  in  his  "Preliminary 
Statement  of  the  Cantine 
Genealogy,"  says  that  the  original  home  of 
the  family  was  Royan,  a  small  town  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Gironde.  the  wide  arm  of 
the  sea  which  reaches  from  the  city  of  Bor- 
deaux to  the  French  coast,  and  into  which 
the  Garonne  river  empties  itself.  Here  Moses 
Cantine,  or  as  he  himself  writes  his  name  in 
the  early  records  that  have  come  down  to  us, 
Moyse  Quantain,  lived,  and  when  the  persecu- 
tion of  the  Huguenots  began  again  in  France 
in  1685,  he  "left  the  land  of  his  fathers  in 
one  of  the  smaller  coasting  vessels  of  his  na- 
tive village,  and  was  taken  on  board  of  some 
one  of  the  numerous  English  ships  which,  at 
that  time,  were  making  a  business  of  trans- 
porting for  a  remuneration,  those  Protestant 
Frenchmen  who  sought  relief  from  persecu- 
tion in  flight."  Whether  he  came  straight  to 
America  or  stopped  for  a  while  on  his  way 
in  England,  is  unknown.  His  name  appears 
for  the  first  time  in  the  sheriff's  lists  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Ulster  county,  New  York,  as 
early  as  1689,  and  Mr.  Julien  says  that  there 
is  evidence  of  his  presence  in  the  county  at 
a  still  earlier  date.  Later  he  became  a  resi- 
dent of  New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  where  he 
remained  until  the  children  of  his  second 
wife's  first  marriage  were  grown  up,  and  then 
removed  to  Ponckhockie.  In  1700  his  name 
appears  on  the  records  of  New  Paltz  as  a 
lieutenant  in  a  military  company.  He  died  in 
1743,  and  was  buried  in  the  yard  of  the  Dutch 
church    at    Marbletown,    Ulster   county,    New 

York.     He  married   (first)   in  France,  

,    who    died    during    the    passage    to 

America.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Christian  Deyo  and  widow  of 
Simon  Le  Fevre.  Her  father  was  one  of  the 
original  twelve  patentees  of  the  town  of  New 
Paltz,  as  was  also  Isaac  Le  Fevre.  the  father 
of  her  first  husband.  He  married  (third) 
September  20.  1703,  Marytje,  widow  of 
Boudewyn  de  Witt,  whose  first  husband  had 
been  sheriff  of  Ulster  and  Dutchess  counties 
in  1 701.  One  child  by  second  marriage: 
Peter,  referred  to  below ;  no  children  by  first 
and  third  marriages. 

(II)  Peter,  son  of  Moses  and  Elizabeth 
(  Deyo-Le  Fevre )  Cantine,  was  born  in  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  was 
baptized  in  the  French  church  there  May  21, 


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[693.  lie  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the 
town  of  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
from  1720  to  1 7-i>,  and  he  also  held  several 
other  public  offices.  After  1728  he  removed 
from  Kingston  to  Marbletown,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  trustees  from  1750  to  1761.  lie 
also  became  a  large  landowner,  purchasing  at 
one  time  a  tract  from  Claes  van  Schoonhoven, 
and  receiving  through  his  wife  a  large  tract 
on  both  sides  of  the  Esopus  creek.  He  mar- 
ried, June  id,  1715.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Matthys  and  Margaret  1  Schoonhoven  )  Blan- 
shan.  Children:  1.  Elizabeth,  baptized  Jan- 
uary 2(),  1 7- 1  f >.  died  in  infancy.  2.  Moses, 
baptized  January  13.  i"i",  died  in  177'';  mar- 
ried Maria  Sleght ;  no  children.  3.  Margaret, 
bom  July  23.  1718,  and  baptized  August  24, 
171S.  4.  Elizabeth,  baptized  February  21. 
1720.  died  about  1751  :  married,  March  8,  174''. 
William  Nottingham.  5.  Matthew,  baptized 
October  15,  1721  ;  married  (first)  December 
9,  1744.  Catharine  Nottingham,  and  (second) 
Elizabeth  Depuy.  6.  Maria,  baptized  January 
2~,  1723;  married  Hendricus  Jansen.  7.  Na- 
thaniel (  his  name  sometimes  written  Daniel 
in  the  early  records  1 ,  baptized  October  25, 
1724,  married  ("first)  Gertrude  Delameter, 
(second)  Sara  Rutsen,  and  (third)  Dorothea 
Nieuwkerck.  8.  Catharine,  baptized  March 
20,  1726.  died  February  28,  1799;  married  in 
March,  1 75 1,  Daniel  Le  Fevre.  9.  Abraham, 
referred  to  below.  10.  Peter  (2),  baptized 
December  29,  1720,  died  November  28,  1813; 
married,  November  14,  1760,  Magdalena  Le 
Fevre.  11.  Cornelia,  baptized  April  2,  1732. 
12.  Johannis,  baptized  November  1(1,  1735. 
died  in  1807;  married  Maria  Brodhead. 

(III)  Abraham,  son  of  I'eter  and  Elizabeth 
(  Blanshan  )  Cantine,  was  born  in  Kingston, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  December  8,  1727, 
baptized  there  January  14,  1728.  and  died  De- 
cember 26,  1814.  He  married  Elizabeth  Dela- 
meter, wdio  was  born  in  1735  and  died  Sep- 
tember (>,  1805.  Children:  Four,  among 
whom  was   I'eter  A.,  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Peter  A.,  son  of  Abraham  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Delameter)  Cantine,  was  born  August 
24,  1765,  ami  died  in  (  Ictober,  1843.  He  was 
a  successful  farmer  and  owned  a  grist  and 
saw  mill.  His  district  he  represented  twice  in 
the  state  assembly,  and  he  held  various  local 
public  offices.  He  married,  February  19,  1790, 
lane  Sammons,  of  Montgomery  county.  New 
York.      Children:      Seven,  among  whom   was 


Martin,    the    youngest,    referred    to    below. 

(V)  Martin,  son  of  Peter  A.  and  Jan 
(Sammons)  Cantine,  was  born  April  14,  1808 
and  died  August  14,  1891.  He  inherited  hi: 
father's  lands  and  mills  and  was  a  farmer  al 
his  life.  He  married,  February  2~ .  1830,  Ly 
dia  Elmendorf,  who  died  September  22,  1881 
Children :  Four,  among  whom  was  Peter 
referred   to  below. 

(  VI  )  Peter,  son  of  Martin  and  Lydia  (  El 
mendorf)  Cantine,  was  born  December  27' 
1831,  and  died  December  21,  1900.  He  wa 
born  on  a  farm  on  the  south  side  of  Esopu 
creek  in  the  town  of  Marbletown,  Ulstei 
county.  New  York,  and  received  the  meagr 
education  of  the  country  schools  there.  It 
1853  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  offic 
of  Stephen  Sammons,  of  Fonda,  New  York 
The  following  year  he  returned  to  Kingstoi 
and  continued  his  studies  in  the  office  of  W'il 
Ham  S.  Kenyon,  and  was  admitted  to  the  ba 
of  New  York  state,  at  Albany,  in  Februarj 
1855.  For  a  short  time  he  resided  at  Fonda 
but  soon  came  to  Saugerties,  where  he  becam 
a  resident  and  practised  his  profession  in  botl 
the  circuit  and  supreme  courts  of  the  state 
He  was  an  ardent  Republican  in  politics  am 
served  his  town  and  village  as  trustee.  Fron, 
1872  to  1878,  he  was  surrogate  of  Ulste 
county,  and  he  was  the  Republican  nomine 
for  justice  of  the  supreme  court  in  a  stronj 
Democratic  judicial  district,  where  he  was  de 
feated.  He  was  also  delegate  to  the  state  as 
scmbly  and  to  the  congressional  state  and  ju: 
dicial  assemblies.     He  married,  December  25. 

1857,  Sarah  Ann  Starin.  Children:  Charle 
F.,  referred  to  below;  De  Lancey  S.,  Martir 
referred  to  below;  Lydia,  married  George  E 
French,  of  the  United  States  army. 

(VII)  Judge  Charles  F.  Cantine,  son  o 
Peter  and  Sarah  Ann  (Starin)  Cantine,  wa 
born  at  Saugerties,  New  York,  November  1 

1858.  He  received  an  excellent  preparator ; 
education  at  the  Saugerties  Academy,  and  late 
pursued  advanced  studies  at  Rutgers  College 
New  Brunswick.  New  Jersey,  from  which  h 
was  graduated  in  1880.  He  studied  law  fo 
a  few  months  with  his  father  at  Saugertie 
and  then  entered  Columbia  Law  School,  fror 
which  he  was  graduated,  and  in  May.  188? 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Ithaca.  Nev 
York.  He  formed  a  partnership  with  hi 
father  under  the  firm  name  of  P.  &  C.  F 
Cantine.  and  the  same  year  came  to  Kingstoi 


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and  opened  an  office  in  Rondout.  In  due 
course  of  time  he  acquired  an  extensive  and 
remunerative  practice,  but  during  his  second 
term  as  district  attorney  he  was  forced  to  re- 
linquish a  considerable  portion  of  his  trial 
work  in  civil  cases  in  order  to  devote  his  time 
more  fully  to  his  duties,  and  after  his  election 
as  county  judge  he  declined  to  take  up  matters 
which  would  require  his  appearance  as  a  trial 
lawyer  in  the  supreme  court.  He  never  en- 
couraged litigation,  but  effected  many  settle- 
ments in  cases  where  he  believed  the  best  in- 
terests of  all  parties  would  be  thus  served 
best.  He  was  candid  in  expressing  his  opin- 
ions at  all  times,  and  in  cases  where  he  be- 
lieved his  client  was  in  the  wrong  it  was  his 
custom  to  advise  the  client  fully  of  the  legal 
and  moral  aspects  of  the  case,  and  to  prevent 
needless  and  costly  litigation. 

He  took  an  active  interest  in  politics,  giv- 
ing his  allegiance  to  the  candidates  and  poli- 
cies of  the  Republican  party.  In  November, 
1895,  he  was  elected  district  attorney,  re- 
elected in  1898  and  again  in  1901,  this  fact  am- 
ply testifying  to  his  efficiency  and  popularity. 
His  term  as  district  attorney  was  marked  with 
success.  His  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  un- 
fortunate led  him  into  paths  not  taken  by  any- 
one else.  He  was  a  close  student  of  the  in- 
fluence of  heredity,  and  his  work  in  the  dis- 
trict attorney's  office  opened  a  wide  field  for 
Study.  The  hereditary  influence  in  cases  of 
criminals  whom  he  prosecuted  he  traced  care- 
fullv,  and  being  a  firm  believer  in  the  bene- 
ficial effects  of  environment,  he  began  in  the 
early  part  of  his  career  to  take  up  the  matter 
of  caring  for  the  children  of  these  people, 
and  placing  them  amid  new  surroundings, 
where  the  best  that  was  in  them  might  have 
opportunity  for  development.  To  this  end  he 
instituted  proceedings  to  place  children  whose 
parents  were  unwilling  or  incapable  of  car- 
ing for  them  properly,  in  institutions  or  fam- 
ilies where  they  would  receive  the  attention 
and  care  they  deserved,  and  when  once  they 
were  so  placed  and  were  improving,  he  re- 
sisted, both  as  a  private  citizen  and  in  his 
capacity  as  a  lawyer,  efforts  to  have  the  chil- 
dren returned  to  surroundings  marked  by 
crime  or  squalor.  In  order  that  he  might 
carry  on  more  effectively  the  work  on  behalf 
of  unfortunate  children,  he  became  actively 
interested  in  the  Industrial  Home,  of  which 
he  was  elected  a  trustee  a  number  of  years 


ago.  Here  he  gave  invaluable  aid  by  personal 
investigation  and  active  endeavor,  also  finan- 
cially. In  addition  to  this  work  he  carried  on 
many  private  charities  in  individual  cases.  As 
district  attorney  he  prosecuted  with  all  the 
vigor  he  possessed  criminal  cases  in  which  he 
thought  conviction  and  punishment  were  mer- 
ited. He  possessed  an  analytical  mind,  and 
in  every  case  that  came  before  him,  either  as 
district  attorney  or  county  judge,  or  in  his 
private  practice,  he  sought  always  to  arrive  at 
the  truth.  Prior  to  his  election  as  district  at- 
torney, in  1892-93.  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Republican  state  committee,  and  in  1893-94 
he  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  county 
committee  of  Ulster  county. 

He  was  elected  county  judge  in  1904,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1910  for  a  term  of  six  years. 
He  was  absolutely  fair  and  impartial  in  his 
decisions,  losing  sight  of  personalities  in  his 
search  for  truth.  His  ability  was  recognized 
beyond  the  bounds  of  Ulster  county,  and  he 
was  often  requested  by  the  county  judges  of 
Kings  county  to  come  to  Brooklyn  and  hold 
court  there  when  the  criminal  cases  became 
too  numerous  for  the  Kings  county  judges. 
In  February,  1912.  he  held  court  in  Brooklyn 
for  an  entire  month,  with  satisfaction  to 
everyone.  Several  years  previous  he  held  a 
term  of  court  in  Orange  county,  and  made  a 
record  for  the  trial  of  more  than  two  score 
of  important  criminal  cases.  The  human  in- 
terest in  every  case  appealed  to  him.  He  was 
choice  in  the  use  of  English,  and  his  charges 
to  juries  were  models  of  elegant  diction,  and 
clear  and  comprehensive  statements  of  the 
facts  in  the  case  and  the  law  applicable  to 
them.  In  all  his  charges  he  was  absolutely 
fair,  impartial  and  fearless,  and  lawyers  with- 
out exception  took  delight  in  trying  cases  be- 
fore him.  Fearlessness  of  action  when  a  ques- 
tion of  right  or  principle  were  concerned,  re- 
gardless of  personal  discomfort  or  conse- 
quences, was  one  of  the  marked  characteris- 
tics of  his  entire  life.  He  never  lost  his  tem- 
per ;  while  insistent  where  right  was  con- 
cerned he  was  extremely  gentle ;  in  all  crim- 
inal cases  where  he  believed  mercy  should  be 
shown,  he  extended  it,  and  more  than  any 
other  man  whom  Ulster  county  knows  he 
filled  the  description  once  given  by  Senator 
Benjamin  Tilman,  of  South  Carolina,  regard- 
ing a  colleague :  "He  was  one  of  God  Al- 
mighty's  gentlemen." 


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Judge  Cantine  took  an  active  interest  also 
in  all  literary  and  historical  matters.  For 
several  years  he  was  one  of  the  trustee--  of 
the  Kingston  City  Library,  and  during  that 
period  he  presented  many  volumes  to  the 
library,  especially  hooks  relating  to  historical 
matters.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  history, 
especially  relating  to  New  York  state,  which 
he  had  studied  extensively  and  critically.  He 
was  more  particularly  interested  in  the  his- 
tory of  Ulster  county,  and  at  different  times 
delivered  several  historical  addresses.  His 
last  historical  address  was  delivered  at  the  <  >ld 
Home  Week  Celebration  at  Saugerties  in 
1911.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  New  York 
State  Historical  Association,  and  it  was  due 
principally  to  his  efforts  that  the  association 
held  its  annual  meetings  in  Kingston.  He  was 
one  of  the  state  board  of  regents  of  Kingston 
Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Univer- 
sity and  Manhattan  clubs  of  New  York  City, 
the  Kingston  Club,  Rondout  Club,  Twaalfskill 
Club,  Winnisook  Club  and  Saugerties  Club. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Holland  So- 
ciety of  New  York,  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  the  Huguenot  Society  of  America, 
and  Rondout  Lodge,  No.  343,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons. 

Judge  Cantine  married  (first)  December  21, 
[882,  Mary  C.  Sheffield,  of  Saugerties,  New 
York.  She  died  February  27,  [889,  leaving  a 
daughter.  Agnes  L.,  wdio  is  living  at  the  pres- 
ent time.  He  married  (  second  1  September  1, 
1893,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  William  and 
Eleanor  (Sackett)  Fost,  of  Brookhaven,  New 
York,  by  whom  he  is  survived. 

Judge  Cantine  died  at  his  home  on  Albany 
avenue,  Kingston,  July  14,  1912,  and  the 
funeral  services  were  conducted  in  the  hirst 
Reformed  Dutch  Church,  of  which  he  was  a 
member.  His  demise  was  sincerely  mourned 
by  all  who  knew  him,  as  he  was  a  man  of  sin- 
cerity, integrity  and  unquestioned  ability. 
loyal  to  his  friends,  but  first  loyal  to  truth 
and  what  he  believed  was  right.  He  was  a 
man  to  whom  a  public  or  a  private  trust  was 
as  sacred  as  the  most  solemn  oath,  and  his 
entire  life  bore  witness  to  the  conscientious 
carrying  out  of  this  belief  and  the  soundness 
of  his  view.  His  simplicity  and  modesty  were 
unusual.  He  detested  shams,  and  loved  truth 
for  truth's  sake,  lie  had  old-fashioned  ideas 
regarding   honesty    and    morality,   and    he    in- 


stilled these  ideas  into  others  in  a  quiet  and 
unobtrusive  way  that  was  most  effective. 

(  VII  )  Martin,  son  of  Peter  and  Sarah  Ann 
(  Starin )  Cantine,  was  born  at  Saugerties, 
New  York,  January  22,  1866,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing there.  After  receiving  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  academy  at  Saugerties  and  the 
Seventeenth  street  grammar  school  in  New 
York  City,  he  secured  employment  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years,  with  J.  B.  Sheffield  &  Son, 
paper  manufacturers,  where  he  remained 
about  five  years.  In  1888  he  purchased  the 
plant  of  the  Alston- Adams  Company  at  Al- 
bany, New  York,  and  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  paper  for  himself.  He  organized 
the  firm  of  Martin  Cantine  &  Company,  and 
January  1,  1889,  began  operations  in  Sauger- 
ties. In  1890  the  firm  became  incorporated, 
and  Mr.  Cantine  was  chosen  president,  a  posi- 
tion he  has  held  ever  since,  at  the  same  time 
personally  managing  the  entire  business.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  has  served 
several  terms  as  director  and  two  years  as 
president  of  the  village,  the  last  office  being, 
from  1896  to  (897.  Since  iqoo  he  has  been 
president  of  the  board  of  education,  and  in 
1899  'le  was  :ne  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  de- 
partment. In  1900  he  was  also  president  of 
the  Saugerties  Board  of  Trade,  and  he  has 
always  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
best  and  most  important  business  and  social: 
interests  of  the  village.  He  is  the  president 
of  the  American  Coated  Paper  Manufacturers 
Association  of  the  United  States  and  of  the 
Tissue  Company,  manufacturers  of  crepe 
paper,  and  president  of  the  Saugerties  Build- 
ing &  Loan  Association.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Saugerties  and  Kingston  clubs  and  of  the 
Republican  Club  of  New  York  City.  In  re- 
ligion he  is  a  member  of  the  Reformed  church 
of  Saugerties.  Mr.  Cantine  married,  in  June 
1900,  Fanny,  daughter  of  General  William  B 
Rudd,  of  Lakcvillc.  Connecticut.  Children 
Holley   Rudd;  and  Frances. 


(Ill)  Peter  (2)  Cantine.  soi 
C  WTIXF  of  Peter  (  1  1  Cantine  (q  v. 
and  Elizabeth  (Blanshanj 
Cantine,  was  born  in  Kingston.  Ulster  county 
New  York,  November  28,  1720.  being  baptize! 
there  December  20,  of  the  same  year,  and  diet 
near  Marbletown,  LTlster  county.  New  York 
November  28.  1813. 

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occupation,  and  resided  with  most  of  his 
brothers  in  the  town  of  Marbletown,  near  the 
place  now  known  as  Stone  Ridge.  His  de- 
scendants still  reside  there  in  large  part,  but 
according  to  the  "Preliminary  Statement  of 
the  Cantine  Genealogy,"  referred  to  '  ive, 
many  of  them  are  also  residing  farther  i4j  the 
valley  of  the  Rondout,  in  Napanoch  and 
Leurenkill.  Peter  married  November  14, 
1760,  Magdalena  Le  Fevre. 

(IV)  Jacob,  son  of  Peter  (2)  and  Magda- 
lena ( Le  Fevre)  Cantine,  was  born  near  Mar- 
bletown, Ulster  county,  New  York,  November 
I,  1779,  and  died  in  1852,  at  Ellenville,  Ulster 
county.  New  York.  Jacob  was  brought  up  on 
the  farm  of  his  father  and  gave  his  attention 
to  farming  and  blacksmithing  until  about  the 
middle  of  his  life,  when  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  tilling  the  soil.  In  politics  he  was 
what  is  termed  an  old  line  Whig,  and  held 
the  office  of  assessor  in  his  town  for  many 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church  of  Ellenville,  and  was  a  worthy 
and  very  useful  man.  He  married,  December 
19,  1799,  Ann.  daughter  of  Richard  Brod- 
head,  of  Wawarsing  township,  she  being  born 
March  6,  1782,  died  January  21,  1875.  Chil- 
dren: Richard,  born  March  19,  1801,  died  in 
infancy;  Jane,  July  27,  1803,  died  January  21, 
1875,  remained  single ;  Peter,  born  July  2, 
1806,  died  May  31,  1866,  a  farmer  and  specu- 
lator, residing  in  Wawarsing  township ;  Mat- 
thew, mentioned  below ;  Magdalena,  October 
27,  1813,  died  March  22,  1871,  remained  un- 
married; Catherine,  May  4.  1821.  died  De- 
cember 29,  1890,  married  William  Corwin,  a 
farmer  in  Wawarsing  township ;  Richard  H., 
November  4,  1822,  died  December  29,  1890. 

(V)  Matthew,  son  of  Jacob  and  Ann 
(Brodhead)  Cantine,  was  born  at  Leurenkill, 
Wawarsing  township,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  April  13,  1808,  and  died  February  21, 
1880,  at  his  native  place.  Matthew  Cantine 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  was 
educated  in  the  district  schools  of  Leurenkill. 
He  engaged  in  early  life  in  the  butcher  busi- 
ness and  later  purchased  a  farm  of  about 
seventy  acres  in  Leurenkill,  where  he  lived 
and  engaged  in  its  cultivation  and  develop- 
ment for  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  moder- 
ately active  in  the  public  affairs  of  the  town, 
and  was  a  Republican  in  politics.  As  mem- 
bers of  the  Reformed  church  the  members 
of  his  family  held  a  leading  place,  Mr.  Can- 


tine being  deacon  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
married,  December  2.  1832.  Caroline,  born 
October  1,  1809,  in  Dutchess  county,  New- 
York,  died  October  9,  1885,  daughter  of 
George  La  Moree,  a  prominent  citizen  in  that 
part  of  the  country,  the  descendant  of  an- 
cestors who  came  originally  from  France  to 
the  New  World.  Children :  Juliette,  born 
October  11,  1833,  died  June  21,  1895;  Jacob. 
born  January  18,  1836,  died  March  17,  1907, 
a  resident  of  Napanoch  ;  Mary  Jane,  October 
5,  1837,  died  October  8,  1841 ;  Ann  B.,  Au- 
gust 10,  1842,  married  Egbert  Hoornbeck,  a 
farmer  residing  near  Napanoch ;  Peter  N., 
mentioned  below;  Mary,  May  4,  1853,  mar- 
ried Eugene  Burhans,  of  Ellenville. 

(VI)  Peter  N.,  son  of  Matthew  and  Caro- 
line (  La  Moree)  Cantine,  was  born  January 
21,  1845,  at  Leurenkill,  in  Wawarsing  town- 
ship, Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  received 
a  sound  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
the  district,  as  well  as  at  the  Ellenville  Acad- 
emy, and  after  he  left  school  worked  for  a 
time  as  a  helper  to  his  father  on  the  family 
property.  Following  that  he  occupied  the  po- 
sition of  clerk  in  the  store  of  Townsend 
Holmes  for  a  period  of  about  two  years,  and 
then  in  the  year  1869  removed  to  Napanoch 
and  there  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
Cudney,  as  dealers  in  general  merchandise. 
The  style  and  title  of  the  firm  was  Cudney 
&  Cantine,  and  at  the  end  of  a  period  long 
enough  to  indicate  the  promise  of  business 
conditions  under  the  state  of  things  then  pre- 
vailing, they  had  an  opportunity  of  turning 
their  business  into  cash,  and  dissolved  part- 
nership to  try  their  fortunes  in  other  fields. 
Mr.  Cantine  then  became  connected  with  A 
S.  Schoonmaker  of  Napanoch  and  remained 
with  his  store  for  a  period  of  three  years.  He 
then  went  into  the  butcher  business  and  in 
the  course  of  a  few  years  had  one  of  the 
leading  meat  markets  of  the  town,  finally,  at 
the  end  of  thirty-five  years,  retiring  from  busi- 
ness and  devoting  himself  to  his  interests  and 
hobbies  in  other  directions.  Mr.  Cantine  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  has  held  several 
local  offices.  He  is  an  attendant  and  sup- 
porter of  the  Reformed  church,  and  is  a  man 
of  large  acquaintance,  greatly  respected  in  the 
neighborhood.  He  married,  October  18,  1877, 
Henrietta  Sagendorph,  born  May  17,  1845,  in 
Shandaken,  Ulster  county.  Her  grandfather, 
Adam  Sagendorph,  came  to  this  country  from 


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Germany  when  ;i  young  man.  lie  married 
Elizabeth  Heavener,  of  German  descent,  and 
settled  in  Columbia  county,  where  his  son  An- 
drew, Mrs.  Cantine's  father,  was  born  Decem- 
ber i6,  1820.  Andrew  Sagendorph  married 
Amanda  Trites,  a  descendant  of  an  old  Hol- 
land family,  who  was  horn  February  24,  1823, 
and  Mrs.  Cantine  was  the  second  in  their 
family  of  four  children.  Louise,  the  eldest, 
married  Byron  Dutcher,  a  farmer  and  mer- 
chant, of  Big  Indian,  Ulster  county;  two 
younger  children,  Horatio  and  Harriet,  died 
in  infancy.  Mrs.  Cantine's  father  died  April 
4,  [882,  her  mother  January  J4,  1893.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Cantine  have  no  children. 


Robert  Seeley,  the  founder  of 
SEELEY  this  family,  was  horn  in  Eng- 
land, and  according  to  Savage 
came  to  America  with  Winthrop  in  1630.  lie 
settled  first  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts, 
where  lie  was  made  freeman  May  (8,  1631, 
and  town  surveyor  in  [634.  In  1636,  he  re- 
moved to  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  where  he 
served  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Pequod  war,  in 
1637,  and  is  mentioned  for  gallant  action  in 
the  tight  at  Mystic.  June  2,  1637,  he  com- 
manded thirty  men  appointed  to  guard  the 
Connecticut  river  plantations,  lie  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  first  church  at  Xew  Haven 
in  1639,  a  member  of  the  general  assembly 
in  the  same  year  and  also  marshal  of  the 
colony.  In  1654  he  visited  England,  but  re- 
turned in  time  to  command  the  New  Haven 
forces  under  Sedgwick  and  Leverett,  raised 
to  operate  against  the  Dutch  in  New  Amster- 
dam. He  was  at  Saybrook  in  1662,  at  Strat- 
ford in  if rf>3,  and  was  commissioner  for  Con- 
necticut at  Huntington,  Long  Island,  in  [662, 
and  head  of  the  militia.  He  is  said  to 
have  died  in  New  York  City.  <  Ictober 
i' 1,  [668,  his  widow  Mary  administered  his 
estate  and  the  sons  named  are:  Obadiah, 
who  died  at  Stamford,  Connecticut,  August 
25,  1757,  married  the  widow  of  John  Miller 
of  Stamford;  Nathaniel,  marriedMary  Tur- 
ney :  John,  who  lived  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
married  Sarah  Squire ;  from  one  of  these  is 
descended  Jonathan,   referred  to  below. 

(I)  Jonathan  Seeley  was  born  in  Rhode 
Island  and  died  in  Ohio.  About  1780,  accom- 
panied by  three  of  his  brothers,  Ephraim, 
John  and  Israel,  he  settled  in  Danby,  Ver- 
mont, where  he  rose  to  a  prominent  position. 


became  a  man  of  wealth  and  influence  and 
one  of  the  largest  landholders  in  the  town. 
He  was  a  great  speculator  and  something  of 
a  broker,  and  he  held  prominent  offices  both 
in  town  and  church  for  a  long  series  of  years. 
In  17X4  he  was  constable.  He  was  selectman 
for  five  years,  lister  for  five  years,  and  a 
justice  of  the  peace  for  ten  years.  Later  he  j 
removed  to  Saint  Lawrence  county,  New] 
York,  and  finally  to  <  >hio,  where  he  died.  He 
married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Wil- : 
Ham  Bromley,  senior,  and  (  second )  Freelove, 
daughter  of  William  Bromley,  junior.  Chil- 
dren: Hannah,  married  Peleg  Harrington;, 
Ira,  born  about  1783,  died  in  1850,  married 
Nancy  Vail;  Bromley,  born  about  1790,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Herrick ;  Elizabeth,  married 
Daniel   Saulsbury ;   Jonathan,   referred  to  be-, 

low  ;  1  liram,  married Carpenter  ;  Lucy, 

married  (first)  Jared  Burdick,  and  (second), 
Thomas  Page ;  Benjamin,  married  Lydia 
Kelly:  Isaac,  married  Nichols. 

(II)  Jonathan  (2